Congress’s AK Antony’s Son Quits Party, Cites Post On BBC Series On PM Modi

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New Delhi: Congress veteran AK Antony’s son Anil K Antony has quit the party alleging “intolerant calls to retract a tweet” in which he had denounced a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called it a “dangerous precedent”.

Anil Antony, who was part of the Congress’s social media cell in Kerala, shared his resignation letter on Twitter today and cited “abuses by ones supporting a trek to promote love” in a caustic reference to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra.

He alleged that he had received threat calls and hate messages “through the night”. “A lot of things that happened in the last 24 hours, especially from certain corners of Congress, have hurt me a lot,” he told news agency ANI. Anil Antony’s “redacted resignation letter” slammed the party leadership, saying: “By now, I have been made well aware that you, your colleagues, and the coterie around the leadership are only keen to work with a bunch of sycophants and chamchas, who would unquestionably be at your beck and call. This has become the lone criterion of merit.” Yesterday, Anil Antony called the BBC a state-sponsored channel with a “long history of prejudices against India”, while slamming a two-part series focusing on PM Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Anil Antony had called the BBC a state-sponsored channel while slamming the documentary on PM Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The documentary, which investigates allegations linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots, has been slammed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a “propaganda piece designed to push a discredited narrative”. The documentary reflects a “colonial mindset”, the government said.