There was an important
meeting convened in the last week of October by Priyanka Gandhi with her party
members. Congress leaders Gulam Nabi Azad, Raj Babbar, Sheila Dikshit and
Sanjay Singh were present in the meeting. A source revealed that a major topic
of discussion was the impact of Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s exit from the Congress in
favour of BJP. They also discussed why Rita left the Congress. This revealed
some new facts. It was disclosed that Rita was apprehensive of losing to
Mulayam Singh’s daughter-in-law, Aparna Yadav, from Lucknow Cantonment in the
upcoming assembly election. Allegedly, Aparna is also stated to be in touch
with the BJP. Later, the Congress held a Brahmin conference and made Pramod
Tiwari’s daughter, Mona Mishra, in charge of it without including or consulting
Rita. It is also said that in the ‘Minority Conference’, the party did not
allow Rita to enter. Also, it was strategically decided to send major political
leaders to those districts through which Rahul Gandhi’s yatra was to pass so
that they could interact with the media during the rally. Rita was in charge of
Faizabad. When Rahul reached Faizabad, Rita was there to receive him. Sources
revealed that Rahul got furious on seeing her and asked her what was she doing
there. He also directed her to go back to Lucknow. Rita then decided that she
had no future in the Congress and made her way directly to Amit Shah’s house.
Rest is history.
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