What's the condition of Cong, I'm not a Rahulian: Manishankar Aiyar

Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has made it clear that he is in the Congress party. "I haven’t left it. Mr Rahul Gandhi has forgotten that I am a member of the party. Therefore, I am a Gandhian, I am a Nehruvian, I am a Rajivian, but I am not a Rahulian.” Aiyar responded with a stinging attack. “Can you imagine what is the condition of a party which raises a rowdy like KC Venugopal to the level of Sardar Patel, to Rahul Gandhi? That is all I need to say as an answer.”

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He also said, “Our party is so stupid that they have made people like KC Venugopal sit in positions of Sardar Patel and made people like Pawan Khera spokespersons.” Aiyar did not spare fellow Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. “I have never met a more unprincipled careerist than Shashi Tharoor. He is now trying to become Modi’s foreign minister,” he said.After his remarks on the Vijayan government triggered controversy. Aiyer has predicted Vijayan for the third term as CM.