Headlines
Natarajan was propped up when I attacked Modi: Rahul
New Delhi, Feb 4
Congress vice president Rahul
Gandhi Wednesday said his former fellow party leader Jayanthi Natarajan
was propped up against him after he slammed Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
"A few days back, I said something against Modi, and the
next day, they propped up Jayanthi Natarajan," Rahul Gandhi said at a
Congress rally at Azadpur in north Delhi ahead of the polls to the
70-member Delhi assembly Saturday.
He accepted that he had
advised Natarajan, the then minister of state of environment and
forests, to work for the poor and the tribals. He said he was was not
"scared" of anyone.
Natarajan quit the Congress recently after alleging that the party vice president interfered in the working of her ministry.
"I
have fought for the poor, the tribals... I told Jayanthi Natarajan to
protect the environment, the tribals and the poor... and I am not scared
of anyone," he said.
"I will keep fighting for the poor... I am not here for four-five industrialists," he added.
Several
Congress leaders had rebutted Natarajan's allegations and said that
neither Congress president Sonia Gandhi nor Rahul Gandhi ever interfered
with the functioning of the UPA government and ministries.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, meanwhile, called Rahul Gandhi's statement a "bizarre confession".
"This
is a bizarre confession which will trap him further. He has agreed with
what Jayanthi Natarajan exposed," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said.