<p>Former UPA minister Jayanthi Natarajan met BJP national president Amit Shah before resigning from the Congress, said sources in the grand old party on Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Congress sources said Jayanthi, who leveled damaging allegations against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, met Amit Shah during the winter session of Parliament. But the former minister denied in Chennai that she had met Shah.<br /><br />Accusing Rahul Gandhi of giving “specific inputs” on mega infrastructure projects that did not pass through the ministry during her stint as the environment minister, Natarajan quit Congress after spending 30 years in the party. She cited “an atmosphere of lies and suffocation” as reason for her exit.<br /><br />She claimed that Rahul Gandhi’s office had put out false stories accusing her of stalling developmental projects and she was eventually told to quit from the ministerial post.<br /><br />In her long letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, she poured her anguish over the way she was projected. She also recalled that she had refused to address a press conference to criticise then BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over “snoopgate” scandal. <br /><br />Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi swung into damage control mode to shield Rahul Gandhi and charged that “Jayanthi is acting at the behest of her new ‘political masters’ who may have got evidence against her,” hinting at the BJP.<br />DH News Service</p>
<p>Former UPA minister Jayanthi Natarajan met BJP national president Amit Shah before resigning from the Congress, said sources in the grand old party on Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Congress sources said Jayanthi, who leveled damaging allegations against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, met Amit Shah during the winter session of Parliament. But the former minister denied in Chennai that she had met Shah.<br /><br />Accusing Rahul Gandhi of giving “specific inputs” on mega infrastructure projects that did not pass through the ministry during her stint as the environment minister, Natarajan quit Congress after spending 30 years in the party. She cited “an atmosphere of lies and suffocation” as reason for her exit.<br /><br />She claimed that Rahul Gandhi’s office had put out false stories accusing her of stalling developmental projects and she was eventually told to quit from the ministerial post.<br /><br />In her long letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, she poured her anguish over the way she was projected. She also recalled that she had refused to address a press conference to criticise then BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over “snoopgate” scandal. <br /><br />Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi swung into damage control mode to shield Rahul Gandhi and charged that “Jayanthi is acting at the behest of her new ‘political masters’ who may have got evidence against her,” hinting at the BJP.<br />DH News Service</p>
