Rahul Gandhi says 'we are colluding with BJP', tweets Kapil Sibal
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has hit out at Rahul Gandhi on Monday over his reported remarks that the leaders who have written to Sonia Gandhi for organisational overhaul were "colluding with the BJP" and said he has never made a statement in favour of the saffron party on any issue in the last 30 years. What can spell more trouble for Congress Party, Kapil Sibal has tweeted his ire on Rahul Gandhi's reported remarks. This is a first major outburst of a senior leader after the purported contents of a letter written to Sonia Gandhi by apparently 23 senior leaders came into the public domain.
As the CWC meeting is underway and it was reported that Rahul Gandhi had lashed out at the leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi, Sibal tweeted.
However, moments after Kapil Sibal's tweet created a storm, Congress's Randeep Singh Surjewala rejected the news reports that claimed Rahul Gandhi had said anything like this. "Rahul Gandhi has not said a word of this nature nor alluded to it. Pl don’t be mislead by false media discourse or misinformation being spread. But yes, we all need to work together in fighting the draconian Modi rule rather than fighting & hurting each other & the Congress," Surjewala said in response to Kapil Sibal's tweet.
However, minutes after Kapil Sibal's tweet grabbed the news headlines, the senior leader deleted it.
"Was informed by Rahul Gandhi personally that he never said what was attributed to him. I therefore withdraw my tweet," Kapil Sibal tweeted.
However, IndiaTvNews.com managed to keep the screenshot of Kapil Sibal's first tweet. Here's the screenshot of his tweet in which he questioned Rahul's reported remarks about "colluding with BJP".
Screenshot of Kapil Sibal's tweets that created news headlines during the CWC meet today. CWC is meeting to discuss and debate the leadership issue in India's Grand Old Party.
Sibal is among the 23 party leaders who have written to Sonia Gandhi seeking a "full-time" leadership that is active in the field and "visible" in party offices, dissolution of powers to state units and revamping the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in line with the party constitution, among other changes.
