Defectors treated Congress like a rail platform: Kesri
Congress president Sitaram Kesri yesterday blasted the defectors even as another former Union minister -- Ajit Kumar Panja -- left the party to join firebrand leader Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress.
Addressing a rally at the All India Congress Committee headquarters,
Kesri took a dig at the defectors. ''Unfortunately, they had treated the party as a railway platform. They have alighted from the Rajdhani Express and boarded passenger trains and they will again seek entry into a superfast,'' he said.
Despite the media hype created by the Bharatiya Janata Party, no party would benefit by taking the turn-coats into its fold, he said.
Nor would such defections weaken the Congress as the party is well-entrenched among the rural people who really make or mar any election in the country.
''I have no complaint against those who had left the party,'' he
said, adding that but those who had enjoyed office when the
Congress was in power should not have deserted the party at this
juncture.
''Being a true Gandhian, I would not speak ill of those who had left the party and take such developments as a usual phenomenon on the eve of elections,'' he said.
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