Former Rajasthan Congress chief Radhika Khera at the moment joined the BJP. She had left the grand previous social gathering just a few days earlier after accusing senior leaders of harassment.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson Khera introduced her resignation from the Congress on Sunday, citing an alleged plot towards her. She added that she felt punished for going to the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.
Chatting with the media on Monday, Khera claimed that she had been mistreated, locked in a room, and harassed by Chhattisgarh Congress social gathering leaders. She stated that though she introduced up the matter with the social gathering officers, nothing got here of it.
Khera, who had just lately joined the BJP, praised the saffron social gathering for his or her help and charged the Congress of being anti-Hindu.
After becoming a member of the BJP, Khera stated, she wouldn’t be capable to be right here if she hadn’t acquired safety from the pm Modi-led BJP authorities. The way by which I used to be misbehaved with on the land of Kaushalya Mata for being a devotee of Ram, for having darshan of Ram Lalla, she was mistreated, Khera stated. The Congress of at the moment is anti-Ram and anti-Hindu, it’s not the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi, the she added.
Radhika Khera stated in her resignation letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge that she was being criticised by different members of the social gathering for her incapability to regulate her want to go to the Ram Temple and see the idol of Ram Lalla.
Earlier than that, a video of Khera complaining about being disrespected had gone viral. She was clearly sad. She is heard accusing an unidentified individual, saying that nobody within the social gathering is revered, significantly girls who’re elected to workplace.
She claimed, the chairperson of the Chhattisgarh Congress unit’s communication wing, Sushil Anand, and some different individuals, verbally harassed her utilizing phrases that she by no means thought existed throughout an incident on April 30, which she later disclosed particulars of. It’s stated that the lads allgedly locked her in a room for a minute whereas a few different individuals stood outise the room to control her in case she tried to run away.