Overseas chief of Indian opposition forced to resign mid-election over ‘different looks’ race remarks

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