(PTI)
Goa minister Vishwajit Rane, who parted ways with the Congress after the Assembly polls, today claimed that the party would be wiped out under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Rane’s comments came a day after the Congress filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking to restrain him from contesting the upcoming by-election. Rane, who holds the health portfolio, had contested the Goa Assembly polls in February this year on a Congress ticket. He later resigned from the post of MLA on March 16 to join the BJP and was inducted in the state cabinet. “Nobody is interested in the Congress especially with failed leadership like that of Rahul Gandhi. The party will be white-washed in 2019,” Rane told reporters here today. Talking about the petition filed against him, Rane said he had not defected but resigned as Member of Legislative Assembly and would be facing a fresh mandate from the people.
