New Delhi: With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) taking a jibe at the grand old party over the alleged infighting within the Congress’ Uttarakhand unit, former chief minister Harish Rawat on Thursday downplayed his cryptic tweets and said the Opposition was making “spicy stories” over his “everyday tweet”.
“My tweet is an everyday tweet, but after reading the newspaper today I felt it was something special because the BJP and AAP were affected by it and hence are making spicy stories,” Rawat tweeted.
Earlier in the day, Congress leader Manish Tewari took a dig at Rawat over his earlier tweets.
“First Assam, then Punjab, now Uttarakhand. ‘Bhog poora hi paun gaye. Kasar na rahe jawe koi’,” he tweeted.
Tewari’s tweet assume significance as Rawat played a crucial role in the functioning of the Congress unit in all these states. The Congress had replaced Captain Amarinder Singh with Charanjit Singh Channi when Rawat was the party’s Punjab affairs in-charge.
In what was seen as an embarrassment for the Congress top brass ahead of the 2022 Uttarakhand Assembly polls, Rawat had earlier expressed strong displeasure over the state of affairs in the party.
“Isn’t it strange, one has to swim in the sea in the form of the forthcoming electoral battle, the organisational structure instead of cooperation is turning its face away at most places or is playing a negative role,” Rawat tweeted in Hindi on Wednesday.
“There are many crocodiles of the ruling dispensation. On whose directions one has to swim, their nominees are tying my hands and feet,” Rawat, a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), wrote on the micro-blogging platform.
“And then quietly in a corner of my mind, a voice is erupting ‘na denyam, na palaynam’ (one who does not bow or flee). Perhaps the new year will show the way. I have faith that Lord Kedarnath will provide me guidance in this situation,” he tweeted expressing anguish at the factionalism in the Congress’ Uttarakhand unit.