Even before the dust could settle over the resignation of the former Union Minister, Jayanthi Natarajan, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president E.V.K.S. Elangovan raked up a new row, virtually asking former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and his son Karti to quit the party.
Congress sources confirmed that party president Sonia Gandhi immediately rang up Mr. Elangovan and expressed her displeasure over the contents and timing of his statement to the media.
Mr. Elangovan said that whether the Ganga became clean or not, Ms. Natarajan’s exit would cleanse the Congress in the State. “If another person leaves the party with his heir, the Congress will certainly get deliverance,” he said in the statement, in an apparent reference to Mr. Chidambaram and his son.
Elangovan virtually asks Chidambaram and his son Karti
to quit the party
