A Day After Ashwani Kumar's Resignation, Manish Tewari's Cryptic Tweet Swipe At Congress?

Referring to Ashwani Kumar's resignation letter, Tewari said "there may be some truth in what Ashwani Kumar wrote in his letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi."

Congress Lok Sabha MP and AICC Spokesperson Manish Tewari addresses media on March 18, 2020 in New Delhi | Getty

New Delhi: Congres leader Manish Tewari might have taken a swipe at the grand old party through a cryptic post on Twitter a day after the former union minister Ashwani Kumar ended his 46-year-old association with the party.

The Congress MP tweeted a couplet of famous poet Bashir Badr saying, "Mei bolta hun to ilzam hai bagawat ka, mei chup rahun toh badi bebasi si hoti hai (If I speak, the charge is of rebellion, if I keep quiet then it is very helpless) (translated)". 

मैं बोलता हूं तो इल्म है बगावत का,

मैं चुप रहूं तो बेवसी सी होती है।

— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) February 16, 2022

Referring to Ashwani Kumar’s resignation, Tewari on Wednesday said "there may be some truth in what Ashwani Kumar wrote in his letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi" and the same concerns have been raised by G23 leaders in 2020, according to PTI.

Tewari is considered a part of the G-23, a group of dissenting Congress leaders who have demanded organisational overhaul.

The Anandpur Sahib MP said the resignation of Kumar "was a matter of great concern for most of us".

"He is a good person, a very good lawyer who has excellent arguments. Something may be true in what he has said in his resignation letter. These concerns were brought to the notice of the party high command by the G23 group in 2020. But his eye is on a Rajya Sabha seat," PTI quoted Tewari as saying.

Tewari also targeted former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar saying that those raking up the Hindu-Sikh issue in the state are playing in the hands of Pakistan.

The people in the state have never resorted to sectarian politics and they believe in "Punjab, Punjabi, and Punjabiyat", Tewari added.

Ashwani Kumar was a part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) term two government's cabinet. Currently, he was not holding any main profile in the Congress party and did not have a post in the AICC.

Kumar, a long-time member of the Congress resigned citing that the Congress has lost touch with ground reality and no longer reflected the national mood. He added that there was a lack of inspirational leadership and debilitating processes of internal functioning