Former defence minister and veteran Congress leader AK Antony on Thursday said he was hurt by his son Anil Antony’s “very wrong decision” to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“Anil’s decision to join BJP has hurt me. It is a very wrong decision,” he said.
“Till the last breath, I will oppose the wrong policies of RSS and BJP,” said 82-year-old Congress leader while interacting with media persons following Anil Antony’s induction into the BJP.
AK Antony said the Narendra Modi government is systematically diluting diversity and secularism and destroying the constitutional value of India.
He said: “India’s base is unity and religious harmony. After 2014, Modi government came to power, they are systematically diluting diversity and secularism. Unity in diversity is the Indian concept, that is the real reason for India’s unity. But BJP believes only in uniformity. They are destroying the constitutional values of the country.”
Anil Antony, who recently quit the Congress joined the Hindutva party on Thursday in New Delhi in presence of Union ministers Piyush Goyal and V Muraleedharan.
