Congress is a party without mental growth, says Kushboo

Congress is a party without mental growth, says Kushboo

The former Congress spokesperson had joined the BJP on Monday

14/10/2020

New role: Kushboo addressing the media in Chennai on Tuesday. R. Ragu

Special CorrespondentCHENNAI

The Congress is a party that has no thinking capacity and no mental development, former spokesperson of the party Kushboo Sundar, who joined the BJP, said on Tuesday.

Speaking to presspersons at the Chennai airport, Ms. Kushboo hit out at Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K.S. Alagiri for his statement that the Congress had seen her only as an actor and that she did not have any thinking capability.

“One leader [L. Murugan] is trying to build a party convincing people that the BJP alone can do good for the country. Another leader [Alagiri] says I don’t have intelligence. So they came to know after six years of my hard work for the Congress that I don’t have intelligence?” Ms. Kushboo asked.

‘No criticism allowed’

She also said no one could criticise anything within the Congress party. “That’s a party where no one can even make criticisms internally. How can such a party be good for the country?” she asked. When presspersons asked if she would be able to make internal criticisms in the BJP, she said she believed that it was possible. “I have confidence that the BJP will not be like that [the Congress]. I will answer when that sort of a situation [where internal criticism is not allowed] arises,” she said.

Ms. Kushboo also said that her job as the opposition spokesperson was to criticise the government and its schemes as, politically and democratically, having an opposition is good for the country. “But I supported the NEP [National Education Policy] and the abolition of triple talaq. You cannot criticise everything just for the sake of being the opposition,” she said.

She further added that she had carried out her job as opposition spokesperson to the best of her abilities when she was with the Congress. “I was loyal to that party till the last day I was there,” she said.

On Mr. Alagiri’s criticism that she joined the BJP at the behest of her husband, director Sundar C., reportedly due to financial problems, she asked whether people had ever seen him at any of the events with her. “There is no such issue. The fact that they are making all these allegations show how terrible they are,” she said.