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After Congress veteran AK Antony’s son Anil Antony joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the former Defence Minister said his son has taken a wrong move adding that the decision has pained him.
“I am pained by my son Anil’s decision to join the BJP. I strongly feel it is a very wrong decision. India’s base is unity and religious harmony. After 2014, the Modi government came to power, they are systematically diluting diversity and secularism,” AK Antony, who is considered as a close aide of Gandhi family, told mediapersons, reported ANI .
In ANI report, The former union minister alleged that BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are destroying India’s constitutional ethos. He said he will be a Congress worker till his last breath.
“BJP believes only in uniformity. Till my last breath, I will oppose all the wrong policies of RSS and BJP. They are destroying the country’s constitutional values. I will die as a Congress worker. I am 82. I do not know how long I will live, ” added the Congress veteran.
#WATCH | They (BJP) is destroying constitutional values of this country…… During and after independence, Nehru family treated everyone irrespective of their caste, language, region, as one: Congress leader & former Defence minister AK Antony pic.twitter.com/sNVsJBifoG
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2023
In another setback to Congress, former Defence minister AK Antony’s son Anil Antony joined BJP in Delhi on Thursday.
Anil Antony joined the BJP in the presence of Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and V Muraleedharan. Kerala BJP chief K Surendran and senior party leaders Tarun Chugh and Anil Baluni were also present at the occasion.
Anil Antony thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his induction into BJP.
After joining BJP, Anil Antony met party chief JP Nadda along with Union Minister V Muraleedharan.
The development comes months after Anil Antony, who was a Kerala Congress Social Media Team Coordinator, resigned from all posts of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee in January following the row over BBC’s documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
