Freshly out of the BJP, Shehzad Poonawalla has constantly been attacking Congress, making it clear that his exit from the party does not mean he plans to return to his former political camp.
In one such attack on the party on Thursday, Poonawalla said that the “Congress ecosystem” was encouraging right-wing journalists and social media handles to attack him.
“ Congress ka ecosystem meltdown shuru ho gaya. Unhone maatha pakad liya (The Congress ecosystem went into meltdown. Poonawalla’s latest attack on the Congress comes with a political history that goes back to his own association with the party.
Because Rahul Gandhi was Pappu, is Pappu and will remain Pappu,” he said in the video. He joined the Congress in 2008 and became secretary of the Maharashtra Congress unit in 2016. He quit the party in 2017 and joined the BJP. He initially offered to resign on July 30, but the BJP asked him to reconsider.
“I said that I will never let Rahul Gandhi become Prime Minister in my lifetime. They were holding their heads),” he said. He quit the party in 2017, citing “an unfair process” to choose the Congress president that favoured Rahul Gandhi. Poonawalla also said at the time that he invested years of his “energy and money” in the Congress and wanted a party where “merit and talent counts more than the feudal systems of dynastic political patronage and sycophantic loyalty. After a “long and hard contemplation”, he said he decided to go ahead with his resignation.
On X, Poonawalla claimed the Congress expected him to turn against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP after leaving the party. So now this boy will speak strongly against the BJP, and he will also criticise Modi ji.”
Explaining what he believed the Congress had expected after his BJP exit, Poonawalla said, “Congress thought that Shehzad had left the BJP.
