Rahul Gandhi breaks his silence on Jayanthi Natarajan's charges
While addressing an election rally here, Gandhi said: "I asked Jayanthi Natarajan to save the environment & the aadi vaasis, I am not scared of it."
"I have always fought for the underprivileged and I will continue to do so fearlessly," he said.
Former UPA minister and veteran Congress leader Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday resigned from the primary membership complaining 'repeated humiliation' and 'suffocating' atmosphere in the party.
"I cannot continue in this suffocation, I resign as a primary member of the Congress," she told a press conference here hours after her letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi kicked up a storm in media and political circles.
In the letter, shot off on November 5, 2014 Natarajan had suggested that it was at the behest of party vice president Rahul Gandhi that she was forced to quit her ministry in 2013, 100 days before the general elections and she is yet to be provided a reason for her sudden expulsion from party affairs.
The 60-year-old politician also said she was extremely hurt by the manner in which she was treated.
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