New Delhi:Former Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was ditched by many party colleagues, who were very close to him once and whom he trusted. Khursid, however, said he is at a loss to understand what made those party leaders to desert Congress.
"Many party leaders, who left the Congress party were very close to Rahul Gandhi and he trusted them, but what persuaded them to go away, one can't understand," he said. Speaking a speech at the book launch of 'Strange Burdens-The Politics and Predicaments of Rahul Gandhi' at India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, the senior Congressman said that "Rahul Gandhi is an amalgam of both Rajiv Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi because he is soft and strict", he pointed out.
Suhas Borker, who is a trustee at IIC, highlighted that these are tough times. "There's no banner in the background, we were not even allowed a bigger hall and at the last moment, we had to do this book launch in this small hall at Lecture Room II", he said.