Antony says he is pained by son Anil’s decision to join BJP
Stating that he was deeply pained by the decision of his son Anil to join the BJP, Veteran leader A K Antony on Thursday said he would continue to be a Congress worker till his last breath, and castigated the saffron party for taking the country towards a disaster.
The former Kerala Chief Minister also declared his unconditional loyalty to the ‘Nehru family’ in the face of his son’s decision to join the rival party.
Hours after Anil K Antony joined the BJP in the presence of Union ministers Piyush Goyal and V Muraleedharan in New Delhi, his emotionally charged father called it a “wrong” decision.
“I am deeply pained by Anil’s decision to join the BJP. It was a wrong decision,” Antony told reporters at the KPCC headquarters here.
“I am 82 now. I am at the last stages of my life. I don’t know how long I will live and I don’t have any interest in having a long life. I will remain a worker of the Indian National Congress as long as I live,” the Congress leader said.
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Antony says he is pained by son Anil’s decision to join BJP
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Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 6 (PTI) Stating that he was deeply pained by the decision of his son Anil to join the BJP, Veteran leader A K Antony on Thursday said he would continue to be a Congress worker till his last breath, and castigated the saffron party for taking the country towards a disaster.
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The former Kerala Chief Minister also declared his unconditional loyalty to the ‘Nehru family’ in the face of his son’s decision to join the rival party.
Hours after Anil K Antony joined the BJP in the presence of Union ministers Piyush Goyal and V Muraleedharan in New Delhi, his emotionally charged father called it a “wrong” decision.
“I am deeply pained by Anil’s decision to join the BJP. It was a wrong decision,” Antony told reporters at the KPCC headquarters here.
“I am 82 now. I am at the last stages of my life. I don’t know how long I will live and I don’t have any interest in having a long life. I will remain a worker of the Indian National Congress as long as I live,” the Congress leader said.
The former Defence Minister said he would continue to raise his voice against the “disastrous policies of the BJP and the RSS.”
Apparently responding to Anil’s allegations against the ‘Nehru-Gandhi family, Antony said his loyalty would always lie with the Nehru family, which is still at the forefront of the “fearless fight to safeguard the basic ideals of India”.
“My loyalty will always be with Nehru family. The members of that family, even in the midst of being hunted (by the BJP), are at the forefront of the fearless fight to safeguard the values of the Indian constitution,” Antony said.
He said that during the freedom struggle and after Independence, the Nehru family treated every Indian as one, irrespective of their caste, religion, language, and region.
Anil, who headed the Digital Media cell of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee, quit the Congress two months ago, after criticising the party’s stand on the controversial documentary film of the BBC on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and slammed the Congress leadership for working for a “single family” instead of the country.
Antony accused the BJP of destroying the constitutional values of the country. “Unity in diversity is the Indian concept. That is the real vision of India’s unity. But the BJP believes only in uniformity. India’s unity, people’s unity, social harmony, everything is demolished,” the Congress veteran said, blaming the BJP
