India, Aug. 20 -- Shehzad Poonawalla had written a long letter to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in 2017 before resigning from the party. The letter was in complete contrast to his resignation letter to the BJP, which he submitted last month. His letter to Rahul was also way longer and critical of the party's dynastic politics.

After quitting BJP, Poonawalla clarified that there is no way he was returning to Congress. Replying to the same question, he sarcastically told NDTV, "I will join the Congress on one condition: Remove Rahul Gandhi, remove Sonia Gandhi, remove Priyanka Vadra, apologise for Nehru's actions."

Poonawalla joined the Congress in 2008 and, after what he described in his letter as eight years of putting his 'energy and mo...