ANI | Updated: Mar 12, 2019, 01:37 PM IST

Stirring a fresh controversy, Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde has dubbed Congress president Rahul Gandhi as a "hybrid person" and asked whether he would give a DNA proof to establish that he is a Brahmin.

"This Muslim who calls himself a 'januedhari' Hindu, is there any proof that he is a Hindu? This son of a Muslim, whose mother is a Christian, does he have any proof? I am not joking," Hegde, the Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, said at a function in Sirsi in Karnataka on March 9.

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Hegde's reference was to Rahul Gandhi's father Rajiv Gandhi whom he termed a "Muslim". The latter's father was Feroze Gandhi, a Parsi from Gujarat.

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