Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi has resigned from the Congress after 10 years of association with it and joined the Shiv Sena. Chaturvedi was upset that the party reinstated certain Congress leaders, who had used indecent language towards her in Mathura, which happens to be her hometown. Senior party leader Digvijaya Singh described a fellow Congress leader as tunch maal (loosely translated into ‘a desirable object’). Similarly, Imran Masood, the Uttar Pradesh Congress leader who infamously said he would chop PM Modi into pieces, was named in the first list of the Congress candidates for this general election. Manishankar Aiyer did not learn any lesson from his chaiwalla remark against Narendra Modi in 2014 when the party paid heavily for the sheer arrogance displayed by the Congress leader.

Source: dna April 20, 2019 01:30 UTC