A day after being removed from the post of Mumbai Youth Congress president, Zeeshan Siddique claimed that he was asked by a close aide of Rahul Gandhi to lose 10 kgs, only then he would be allowed to meet the Congress scion, triggering a response from Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday.
Recalling a conversation in Maharashtra’s Nanded, on the sidelines of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ last year, Zeeshan said, “I was told by one of the persons close to Rahul Gandhi that I should lose 10kgs before they could let me meet him.”
Following his remarks, Congress-turned-BJP leader Sarma said that the only person who makes “such ridiculous demands” is a “dynast who rules from North Korea”, referring to Kim Jong Un.
In a post on X, Sarma wrote, “The only other person, I can think of, who makes such ridiculous demands from his party workers – that they should look nice and photogenic – is a dynast who rules North Korea.”
On Thursday, MLA Zeeshan Siddique, who was sacked as president of the Mumbai Youth Congress two days ago, alleged that Muslims have no place in the grand-old party and further accused that the hands of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge are “tied”.
“Mallikarjun Kharge is such a senior leader but even his hands are tied. Rahul Gandhi is doing his job but it looks as if people around him have taken a ‘supari’ (contract) from other parties to finish off the Congress,” he alleged, as quoted by ANI.
Earlier this month, Zeeshan’s father Baba Siddiqui quit the Congress and joined the Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).