New Delhi, March 28 -- Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Saturday said that many party leaders have left for other parties due to their lack of "winnability" in their states, taking a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party for having "many empty seats" to take Congress leaders.

In an interview with ANI, Tagore said that senior figures had distanced themselves from the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, dismissing the idea that these exits reflect personal fallout, describing such relationships as largely political rather than personal.

"These leaders who wanted to show that they are very close to Rahul Gandhi ji, wherever the camera was, they were able to see that thing. Then they are all powerful people in Delhi...Rahul Gandh...