Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RS/CN)
Mangalore, May 28: Ramanath Rai, district president of the Congress committee, urged newly-elected Member of Parliament (MP) Nalin Kumar Kateel to reveal the truth behind his comments on the former and the other Congress leaders who allegedly helped Kateel in the Lok Sabha elections.
Rai, addressing a press conference at the city Congress office with MLA Abhayachandra Jain, referring to Kateel’s comment that Rai and Jain helped him win by favouring the BJP said, “He should come to Dharmastala Temple to reveal the truth”.
Rai said, “We believed in the Congress party and we worked sincerely to help our candidate Janardhana Poojary win. Being the leader of one party, we could never support another party or its candidate”.
“We believe Dharmastala Temple is the right place to reveal the truth. As per our belief, people can never tell a lie before Lord Manjunatha there”, added Rai.
He said that there might be genuine reasons for the defeat of the Congress but not the reason as claimed by Kateel. Rai said that they believed in the Congress and in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Manamohan Singh.