Summary:
Guwahati, Nov 16 (PTI) Purported racist comments by a host of a television reality show against a participant from Assam has sparked outrage, with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday calling it a "shameful" incident and asserting that racism has no place in the country.
In a video clip that has gone viral, Raghav Juyal, host of "Dance Deewane" show aired on Colors channel, was seen introducing a young participant from Guwahati in a "Chinese" gibberish, using words like "momo" and "chowmein".
Judges of the show, including actor Madhuri Dixit and choreographer Remo D"Souza, along with the audience were seen laughing at this.
Juyal, however, later shared another video on Twitter where the participant, Gunjan Sinha, was seen telling Dixit that she likes to speak Chinese and then the host shares some light moments with the participant by conversing with her in the gibberish.
"This is what happened actually," Juyal said in the post.
Reacting to the controversy, Sarma tweeted, "It has come to my notice that a popular reality show host has used racist rhetoric against a young participant from Guwahati.