“Thorough Skilled…”: Congress’ Milind Deora Praises New BJP Recruit

New Delhi:

Congress chief Milind Deora on Thursday night tweeted in reward of ‘Metro Guy’ E Sreedharan, who is ready to sign up for the BJP simply months forward of Meeting elections in Kerala, describing him as “a radical skilled” and “an achieved engineer-bureaucrat”.

“One need not be a BJP supporter to welcome E Sreedharan’s access into energetic politics. A radical skilled and one of the crucial county’s maximum achieved engineer-bureaucrats, E Sreedharan belongs to all of India. Our politics wishes extra like him,” Mr Deora mentioned.

One need not be a BJP supporter to welcome E Sreedharan’s access into energetic politics.

A radical skilled & one of the crucial county’s maximum achieved engineer-bureaucrats, E Sreedharan belongs to all of India.

Our politics wishes extra like him.

— Milind Deora | मिलिंद देवरा ☮️ (@milinddeora) February 18, 2021

The tweet is more likely to elevate (as soon as once more) eyebrows throughout the Congress, which had admonished the previous leader of its Mumbai unit closing yr – for tweets praising Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

In February 2020 – after the Congress suffered a rout by the hands of the AAP in Delhi elections – Mr Deora congratulated Mr Kejriwal for operating a marketing campaign keen on construction.

He additionally complimented him for operating “considered one of India’s maximum fiscally prudent governments”.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala issued a pointy rebuke, directing Mr Deora “to mirror about (his) personal function… efficiency… in (his) state and constituency”.

Delhi chief Ajay Maken additionally reacted, bitterly, tweeting: “Brother, you wish to have to depart INC India-Please do-Then propagate part baked info!”

To him Mr Deora replied: “Brother, I might by no means undermine Sheila Dikshit’s stellar efficiency as Delhi CM. That is your forte. However it is by no means too past due to switch! As an alternative of advocating an alliance with AAP, if simplest you had highlighted Sheilaji‘s achievements, Congress would had been in energy as of late.”

The tweets praising the AAP caused hypothesis Mr Deora, 43, who’s extensively observed as one of the crucial party’s extra clever leaders, used to be on his means to sign up for that party.

He has sounded a number of discordant notes during the last two years, together with a well mannered alternate with High Minister Narendra Modi – over his “Hi there, Modi!” tournament – in September 2019.

The connection between party and chief additionally took a success after Mr Deora resigned as Mumbai Congress leader (days prior to his Twitter interplay with the High Minister) following a depressing display within the Lok Sabha election; this used to be simply months after changing rival Sanjay Nirupam.

In the meantime, 88-year-old E Sreedharan is anticipated to sign up for the BJP all through its Vijay Yatra, which starts Sunday. “I imagine within the party. For this reason why I’ve joined…” he mentioned.

There are, on the other hand, questions on his function given the party has a cut-off of 75 years for electoral applicants, carried out prior to now to veterans like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi.

Nonetheless, Mr Sreedharan has mentioned he’s open to contesting elections if the party needs.