Cong woes mounted by desertion, expulsion

Gourav Vallabh, who resigned from the Congress, citing the party’s “lack of direction”, joined the BJP in the national capital on Thursday.

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Vallabh joined the BJP at an event organised at the party’s headquarters in Delhi.

In his first reaction after severing all ties with the party, Vallabh said that he was ‘hurt’ over its silence when some bigshots in the party and its partners in the INDIA bloc spewed venom on Sanatan Dharma.

After distancing himself from the Congress, Vallabh said, “I wrote to (Congress national president) Mallikarjun Kharge, voicing all my misgivings and emotions. I was hurt by my party’s silence when some prominent leaders in the INDIA bloc made unsavoury remarks against Sanatan. I also publicly opposed our party’s stand on Ram Mandir (the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ of Lord Ram Lalla in Ayodhya).”

Vallabh, who had been very vocal for the party and represented the party on several TV debates, said that he had found himself uncomfortable with several stands taken by the party.