Karuna Shukla said Modi's promise of serving the country is “plain dishonesty”.
Former Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla is welcomed into the Congress by Janardhan Dwivedi (right) and Ajit Jogi, in New Delhi | PTI
New Delhi: Having ended her 32-year association with BJP, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla on Thursday joined the Congress and slammed Narendra Modi saying his promise of serving the country is nothing but “plain dishonesty”.
Hitting out at Mr Modi, Ms Shukla said the BJP has declared such a person its prime ministerial candidate “who did not fulfill the duty of a husband or rajdharma when he was Chief Minister. If such a person talks about discharging rashtradharma, I will call it plain dishonesty”.
Welcoming her into party fold, AICC general secretary in-charge Janardan Dwivedi said her joining the Congress had symbolical value as “Karuna Shukla, who was brought up imbibing the value system of a person, who had immense contribution in the making of BJP has severed ties from that party because of bad culture that came there in recent years.”
“The event has a bigger dimension for us as leaving that culture, she is joining Congress making an exit from one particular value system to the other,” he said.
Ms Shukla, 63, who became MLA from BJP in 1993 and was one of the senior leaders in Chhattisgarh, was unhappy over being sidelined and had openly criticised the BJP leadership including Chief Minister Raman Singh.
A former MP from Janjgir constituency of Chhattisgarh, she had lost the 2009 elections from Korba to Charan Das Mahant of Congress.
( Source : PTI )
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