Former BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla stated on Wednesday that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will never become the Prime Minister of India. This comment comes shortly after Poonawalla’s resignation from the BJP, adding a layer of intrigue to his remarks about Gandhi’s political future.
Poonawalla submitted his resignation to BJP national president Nitin Nabin for a second time on Monday and asked him to accept it. He was responding to a post that read, “Shehzad Poonawala is still destroying Congress left right & centre. He later served as vice-president of the Pune unit of the party’s student wing, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), and as secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. He also shared his resignation letter on X.
Poonawalla began his political journey as a Congress volunteer around 2008 while he was still a student.
“Rahul Gandhi will never be PM of India till I am alive,” Poonawalla wrote on X. “ Tareeka badla hai, maqsad nahi ” (The method has changed, not the objective). He cited “pressing financial and personal circumstances” for his decision. He had said he would consider rejoining the Congress only if Sonia Gandhi , Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were removed from the party leadership.
Poonawalla also revisited his earlier remarks about the Congress and his return to the party.
“Some people in Congress started believing that I’m setting terms to come back and started blabbering here,” he had said while responding to a Hindustan Times report on his remarks. Poonawalla said earlier, “I will join the Congress on one condition: Remove Rahul Gandhi, remove Sonia Gandhi, remove Priyanka Vadra , apologise for Nehru’s actions. He also shared a clip of a television interview with former Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha and attacked the Congress over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “dimagi Naxal” remark in his Independence Day speech.
