New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): In one other setback to Congress, former Defence minister AK Antony’s son Anil Antony joined Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) in Delhi on Thursday.
Anil Antony joined the BJP within the presence of Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and V Muraleedharan. Kerala BJP chief Okay Surendran and senior celebration leaders Tarun Chugh and Anil Baluni have been additionally current on the event.
Anil Antony thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his induction into BJP.
The event comes months after Anil Antony, who was a Kerala Congress Social Media Group Coordinator and resigned from all posts of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee in January following the row over BBC’s documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He criticised the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Anthony had hit out on the BBC terming it as “a state sponsored channel with an extended historical past of prejudices” towards India.
“Regardless of massive variations with BJP, I believe these in India inserting views of BBC, a UK state-sponsored channel with an extended historical past of prejudices, and of Jack Straw, the mind behind the Iraq struggle, over Indian establishments is setting a harmful priority, will undermine our sovereignty,” Anthony tweeted.
He then alleged that he had acquired risk calls and hate messages “by the evening”.
Whereas posting about his resignation on Twitter, Antony mocked the Congress celebration by saying that he acquired illiberal calls to retract a tweet by these “preventing without spending a dime speech”.
“I’ve resigned from my roles in @incindia, @INCKerala. Illiberal calls to retract a tweet, by these preventing without spending a dime speech. I refused. @fb wall of hate/abuses by ones supporting a trek to advertise love! Hypocrisy thy identify is! Life goes on,” Anil Okay Antony mentioned in a tweet.
The event comes a 12 months earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. (ANI)
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