Shehzad Poonawalla, who lately stop as Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) spokesperson, quipped that he would contemplate rejoining the Congress provided that celebration leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been “eliminated”.
Ruling out his return to the Congress after he left the celebration in 2017, Poonawalla mentioned: “I’ll be a part of the Congress on one situation: Take away Rahul Gandhi, take away Sonia Gandhi, take away Priyanka Vadra, apologise for Nehru’s actions.”
The BJP chief, whose resignation is but to be accepted by the BJP management, was chatting with NDTV when he made the remarks.
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Lauding the ruling celebration on the Centre, Poonawalla mentioned: “I’m not a bhavishya vakta (future teller) like Rahul Gandhi, however all I can say within the current second is that there isn’t any better chief this nation has had, or may have, than Prime Minister Modi.”
He added: “Having served because the nationwide spokesperson of the world’s largest democratic celebration, do you assume I will accept another celebration? The BJP is the perfect celebration that India has at this second.”
On Monday, Poonawalla requested BJP nationwide president Nitin Nabin to just accept his resignation letter. On July 31, he up to date his bio on X, omitting any point out of the BJP, which sparked hypothesis about his potential departure from the celebration. However there was no official affirmation from the celebration at the moment.
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The BJP chief additionally defined his determination behind leaving the celebration. Recalling his journey from being a TV anchor to becoming a member of politics, he mentioned he wanted new avenues for the reason that present position didn’t contain a lot cash.
“I have to pay my hire. My landlord will not be going to provide me free hire as a result of I am from the BJP. He is asking me for hire on the first. Political events do not pay karyakartas (employees),” he informed the information channel.
The BJP or another political celebration doesn’t pay its spokespersons, he mentioned. “Me wanting to resign or transferring to a personal house has been a dialog since 2024,” he mentioned, including that his “24X7, one year a 12 months” job was now not sustainable for him.
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Requested if monetary circumstances prompted him to stop the BJP, Poonawalla replied: “Completely!”.
Poonawalla mentioned most politicians fall within the “leta” (taking some advantages) or “beta” (somebody’s son) class however he belonged to neither and thus wanted to seek out methods to maintain himself.
“Individuals are unwilling to just accept that politicians like me – first-generation, new-age politicians – do not come from any legacy. What occurs is we’re so used to seeing Sachin Pilots or we’re so used to seeing all these netas, betas, that we assume that everybody has that way of life,” he mentioned.
