New Delhi, Oct 12: As the row between Congress and NCP over Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin intensified, a senior Congress leader from Maharashtra today favoured " breaking the relationship" with the Sharad Pawar-led party and restoring the image of Congress. Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) treasurer Suresh Kalmadi said that it was the right time to break the relationship with NCP in the state.
The NCP has already worked out an alliance with BJP for next Lok Sabha and assembly elections, he alleged, adding it was "out to discredit the Congress". Kalmadi said the "ongoing" statements of NCP leaders showed their intentions and future political thinking.
He said the Congress would be "better off going alone" in the next polls in Maharashtra.
Claiming that NCP had "some strength" in Maharashtra only because they are in government, he regretted that NCP took credit for all good decisions of the Congress Chief Minister while "all things that go wrong are blamed on Congress". Kalmadi, once a close associate of Pawar, said Maharashtra government was getting "a bad name because of various co-operative, sugar and banking scams involving NCP leaders".
He claimed a majority of NCP workers want to join the Congress under leadership of Sonia Gandhi as they were "fed up with their own party". Bureau Report