Stop insulting voters by stupid remarks: Bobby Jindal tells Republican partymen

Criticising the Republican party and its defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has said that leaders should stop insulting voters by saying "stupid" things.

"We don't need to demonise --and we also don't need to be saying stupid things. Look, we had candidates in Indiana and Missouri that said offensive things that only hurt themselves and lost those Senate seats, but also have hurt the Republican Party across the board," Louisiana's governor Jindal said.

"We're going to go and convince and fight for every single vote, showing them we are the party for the middle class, upward mobility. We don't start winning majorities and winning elections by insulting our voters," he said.

"So, I think we can be true to our principles. We don't need to pander or change our principles, but at the same time, we can be respectful," Jindal told the Fox News.

"I'm pro-life. I follow the teachings of my church and my faith. But at the same time, I think we can respect those

who disagree with us. We don't need to demonise those who disagree with us. We need to respect the fact that others have come to different conclusions based on their own sincerely held beliefs and have a civil debate," he said in response to a question on pro-life and women.

Unmarried women voted for Barack Obama by a margin of 67 per cent to 31 per cent, during the presidential elections.

Post election, Jindal has been seen critical of Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate.

"If we want people to like us, we have to like them first. And, you don't start to like people by insulting them and saying their votes were bought. We are an aspirational party," Jindal said responding to Romney's remarks that he lost because Obama bought votes of the targeted groups.

... contd.

ALSO READ

Army to procure artillery howitzers, 3 Indian vendors selected: A K Antony

Amid uproar over scams, govt takes up food bill in Lok Sabha

India, China agree to restore status quo along LAC

CBI chief says report on coal block 'clean and clear'