At the centre of the storm is the Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala, who made a controversial remark on the Kshatriya community. At an event held in March, a member of the Rajya Sabha Rupala stated that the kings had bowed in front of the British and married off their daughters to the British while they were trying to oppress India.
Purported videos of the Jamnagar incident showed a scuffle between Kshatriya women and police minutes before Modi Parivar Sabha a BJP election meeting in Ward No. 6 of Jamnagar on Wednesday.