Jayanthi Natarajan quits Congress; slams Rahul in letter to Sonia

January 30, 2015 09:41

Longtime Congress loyalist Jayanthi Natarajan has reportedly quit the party.

Questioning party Vice President Rahul Gandhi's leadership in a letter to party President Sonia Gandhi, which was reported in The Hindu newspaper today, she said: 'Over the last 11 months, I have suffered the most excruciating mental agony, and have been continuously attacked, wrongly vilified and defamed in the media, and exposed to every possible humiliation in public life.

'From December 20, 2013, until now, I have still not been told by you, why I was asked to resign from the council of ministers, nor have I ever been asked or given an opportunity to explain, if indeed I had committed any wrongdoing.

'I received information that persons from the office of Shri Rahul Gandhi were calling the media and planting stories that my resignation was NOT for party work,' she said in the letter.

She alleged that she had become a victim of a "vicious, false and motivated" media campaign by particular, chosen individuals in the party after Rahul shifted from his pro-environmental position to a corporate-friendly one at the height of electioneering for the Lok Sabha

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