“My son took wrong decision…”: AK Antony on his son joining BJP

Apr 07, 2023

New Delhi, April 06 (ANI): Calling Anil K Antony’s decision to join the BJP ‘wrong’, AK Antony, the former Defence Minister and senior Congress leader, has expressed his anguish while addressing the media persons in Thiruvananthapuram on April 06. Whereas, Anil Antony called his decision ‘decisive’. He also said that the Congress Party now has started prioritising the interest of two-three individuals “I strongly feel this is a wrong decision. The cornerstone for India’s unity in diversity and secularism. 2014 onwards, during the first Narendra Modi Government onwards, they are systematically diluting diversity and secularism. BJP believes only in uniformity which we cannot agree with. They are destroying the country’s constitutional values. Till my last breath, I will oppose all the wrong policies of RSS and BJP. During and after independence, Nehru family treated everyone irrespective of their caste, language, or region, as one,” said AK Antony. Anil Antony said, “This has been a very decisive decision in my life. A few months back, I quit Congress because there was a difference of opinion regarding a documentary (BBC), which I believe was an attack on our sovereignty and integrity. Congress party now is not the Congress I knew when I was growing up. It is not even the party that existed five years back. Now Congress has lost all interest...Party now has started prioritising the interest of two-three individuals.”