Baseless: Ashok Chavan on Rahul Gandhi's Weeping comment

Former Maharashtra CM and BJP MP has rejected  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's claim that he met Sonia Gandhi before leaving the grand old party, BJP Rajya Sabha member Ashok Chavan said, "I never met Sonia Gandhi. It is baseless (to say) that I met Sonia Gandhi and expressed my emotions. It is a political statement from the election point of view." last month Chavan had quit the Congress to join BJP, which nominated him for the Rajya Sabha poll from Maharashtra. Chavan was later declared elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed.
On Sunday Rahul Gandhi concluded the Congress' pan-India yatra in Mumbai with sharp barbs at his rivals and an unnamed friend-turned-foe, who many saw as Chavan."... A senior leader from this state left the Congress. Weeping, he told my mother (ex-Congress boss Sonia Gandhi)... 'I'm ashamed. Don't have the power to fight this force. I do not want to go to jail'." Pointed out Gandhi had not actually named any individual in his attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party."But if he is saying that about me, then it is illogical and baseless. The truth is that till I resigned from the Congress, I was working at the party headquarters. I resigned from the post of MLA and, a few moments later, from the party also. Till then, no one knew I had resigned," he said in a video message.Chavan also criticised the Congress for failing to prep for the Lok Sabha election, which begins April 19; Maharashtra will vote in five phases starting from that date. "State of Congress vis-a-vis BJP? I don't see them ready for a fight (and) if you don't fight, how will you win?" he said.Chavan left the Congress and joined the BJP last month.