Yesterday, the former Congress leader called the BBC a state-sponsored channel with a “long history of prejudices against India”, while slamming a two-part series focusing on PM Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Veteran Congress leader AK Antony’s son Anil K Antony has resigned from the party alleging “intolerant calls to retract a tweet” in which he had denounced a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called it a “dangerous precedent”.
Anil Antony, who was part of the Congress’s social media cell in Kerala, shared his resignation letter on Twitter today and cited “abuses by ones supporting a trek to promote love” in a biting reference to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“I have resigned from my roles in the Congress. Intolerant calls to retract a tweet, by those fighting for free speech. I refused. @facebook wall of hate/abuses by ones supporting a trek to promote love! Hypocrisy thy name is! Life goes on,” he wrote.
I have resigned from my roles in @incindia @INCKerala.Intolerant calls to retract a tweet,by those fighting for free speech.I refused. @facebook wall of hate/abuses by ones supporting a trek to promote love! Hypocrisy thy name is! Life goes on. Redacted resignation letter below. pic.twitter.com/0i8QpNIoXW
— Anil K Antony (@anilkantony) January 25, 2023
Anil Antony’s “redacted resignation letter” slammed the party leadership, saying: “By now, I have been made well aware that you, your colleagues, and the coterie around the leadership are only keen to work with a bunch of sycophants and chamchas, who would unquestionably be at your beck and call. This has become the lone criterion of merit.”
Yesterday, the former Congress leader called the BBC a state-sponsored channel with a “long history of prejudices against India”, while slamming a two-part series focusing on PM Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots.
His view was in complete contrast to the stand of the Congress in Kerala, which announced that the documentary would be screened in different parts of the state.
The documentary, which investigates allegations linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots, has been slammed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a “propaganda piece designed to push a discredited narrative”. The documentary reflects a “colonial mindset”, the government said.
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