Congress chief Jairam Ramesh took potshots at former MP and noted industrialist Naveen Jindal’s exit from the party and joining the BJP, saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “needed a Congress-mukt Bharat”, however he has as an alternative made a “corrupt-mukt Congress”.
After becoming a member of the BJP on Sunday, the Chairman of Jindal Metal and Energy mentioned that it was “a vital day in my life. I’m proud that I joined the BJP in the present day and I will serve the nation below the management of PM Modi”.
“I need to contribute to the ‘Viksit Bharat’ dream of PM Modi,” he mentioned.
Earlier within the day, Jindal additionally thanked the Congress and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he resigned from the occasion.
Responding to the event, Jairam Ramesh tweeted,” Whenever you want a giant-size washer, this needed to occur. And after making ZERO contributions to the occasion within the final ten years, saying I’m resigning from it’s a large joke.”
He even hooked up screenshots of two information articles about Jindal being summoned as an accused by a Delhi court docket in connection to an alleged cash laundering case.
In a second tweet, the senior Congress chief mentioned, “The PM needed a Congress-mukt Bharat.”
“As an alternative he has made a Corrupt-mukt Congress by deploying so many washing machines together with the ED and the CBI to drive corrupt Congressmen to flee to his embrace!”
Simply hours after Naveen Jindal joined the BJP, he featured within the party’s fifth list of 111 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
As per the record, Jindal has been given a ticket from the Kurukshetra seat in Haryana, which he represented as a Congress chief from 2004 till his loss within the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.