Visakhapatnam: Accusing the Congress leadership of snubbing her and doing injustice to Seemandhra, local MP and Union minister of state for commerce and industry D. Purandeswari, announced on Thursday that she was quitting the ruling party.
Ms Purandeswari said she will be meeting BJP president Rajnath Singh and other senior party leaders L.K. Advani and Arun Jaitley in Delhi, on Friday. She said that she was ready to join the BJP. Ms Purandeswari held a meeting in her constituency, Visakhapatnam, on Thursday with her close aides and followers to share her views on quitting the Congress and her future course of action.
“At one point of time, I wanted to quit politics due to the way the Congress humiliated me. But my family, well wishers and followers persuaded me to continue,” she said.
“Not even a single suggestion of mine or my other Cabinet colleagues from Seemandhra was considered by the Congress-led Union government. I’m deeply hurt. Even inclusion into the successor state of villages that are to be submerged due to the Polavaram project was done only due to pressure from BJP leaders such as M. Venkaiah Naidu and Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha. Our suggestions were just ignored in the Lok Sabha while passing the AP Reoganisation Bill,” said an aggrieved Ms Purandeswari.
