I was mentally tortured in BJP, says Vajpayee's niece

October 27, 2013 16:50

A day after resigning from the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla today alleged that she had been "mentally tortured" by the party in Chhattisgarh.

"I feel that the BJP in Chhattisgarh was mentally torturing me because of which I felt that my usefulness to the party had come to an end," Ms Shukla, an ex-MP from Janjgir and former member of the undivided Madhya Pradesh Assembly, told PTI today.

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