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Left Congress due to Rahul Gandhi’s interference, says BJP leader SM Krishna

| @indiablooms | Feb 10, 2019, at 04:53 pm

Bangalore, Feb 10 (IBNS): Former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2017, has said he decided to quit Congress due to constant interference in his work from party's current president Rahul Gandhi.

Krishna claimed that Gandhi interfered in all matters even when he was not working as the President of the Congress party.

Krishna was part of the Congress for 46 years.

“From 2009 to 2014 when I was external affairs minister, there was a suffocating environment in the party,” Krishna was quoted as saying by Times Now while addressing BJP workers in Maddur.

Krishna had served as the External Affairs Minister during the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government.

During his tenure in Congress, SM Krishna, who is now 84, was close aides of former PMs Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi and held key ministerial positions at both the Centre and state.

Congress had even positioned him as the 19th Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008.

However, he quit the party in 2017 and joined the main opposition of the Congress party in the country-BJP.

Krishna also claimed that during Manmohan Singh's tenure as the PM many subjects were moved forward without bringing it to his notice. 

 

Image: Wikimedia Commons
 

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