The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha member Ashok Chavan clarified that he did not meet Congress leader Sonia Gandhi prior to his decision to leave the grand old party and dismissed the Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on the matter as unfounded.
At the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance bloc rally in Mumbai on Sunday, Mr. Gandhi said that a Maharashtra leader met Ms. Gandhi, expressing shame for being unable to confront power further and fearing imprisonment.
“A leader from Maharashtra cried in front of my mother, saying he felt ashamed that he could not fight this power anymore and didn’t want to go to jail,” he said.
Mr. Chavan, responding to these claims via a video message, stated that the Congress leader made these assertions without specifying any individual’s name and his comment was ‘baseless’.
“But if he is saying that about me, then it is illogical and baseless. The truth is that till I resigned from the Congress, I was working at the party headquarters. I resigned from the post of MLA and a few moments later resigned from the party. Till then, no one knew that I had resigned,” the former Chief Minister said, adding that he never met Ms. Gandhi.
