Priyanka Chaturvedi, who quit the Congress, has joined the Shiv Sena. She announced this at a press conference with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai. Chaturvedi had been unhappy with the Congress after the party reinstated partymen she had accused of “misbehaving” with her.
At the press conference, she said that she had left the Congress party after feeling let down with the way she had been treated within the party.
Priyanka Chaturvedi had sent her resignation to Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday. She was the Congress national spokesperson and convenor of party’s media cell. Chaturvedi had recently publicly criticised the party’s decision to reinstate partymen who she had accused of “misbehaving” with her during a press conference in Mathura last year.
The Uttar Pradesh Congress had suspended some party workers following her complaint. They were recently reinstated, reportedly on the recommendation of Jyotiraditya Scindia, the Congress in-charge of UP West.
On Wednesday, Chaturvedi targeted the party leadership saying the Congress gave preference to “lumpen goons” over those who gave their “sweat and blood” to the party.
“In the last few weeks certain things have convinced me that my services are not valued in the organization and that I have reached the end of the road,” she wrote to Gandhi “with a heavy heart.”
“A serious incident and misbehaviour against me by certain party members while I was on official duty for the party has been ignored under the guise of all hands needed for elections. This indignity to me has been the final factor to convince me to move on focus on other things outside INC,” her letter reads.