Overseas chief of Indian opposition forced to resign during election over different looks race remarks [Video]

The overseas head of the Indian National Congress, one of India’s main opposition parties, has resigned after a furore over controversial remarks about the country’s racial diversity.

Sam Pitroda, the 82-year-old chair of the Indian Overseas Congress organisation, told The Statesman during an interview: “We have survived 75 years in a very happy environment where people could live together, leaving aside a few fights here and there.

“We could hold a country together as diverse as India, where people on the east look like Chinese, people on the West look like Arab, people on the North look like white and maybe people on the South look like Africans… doesn’t matter. We are all brothers and sisters.

“We all respect different languages, religions, different looks, customs and food. That’s the India I believe in where everybody …