Saffron party only a political adversary: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi sought to disapprove of Advani making a private conversation between them public, but maintained that he considers the saffron party only as a ‘political adversary’.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi sought to disapprove of BJP leader L K Advani making a private conversation between them public, but maintained that he considers the saffron party only as a ‘political adversary’.

“I am not in the business of making private conversation public,” Gandhi said.

His comment came in the backdrop of recent reports that Advani was touched by his gesture of walking up to him at the Delhi airport’s VIP lounge, and that the BJP leader had told him that the two mainstream parties should treat each other as ‘political adversaries and not enemies’.

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“I don’t have a sense of disappointment,” he said when asked how he felt about a private conversation being made public.

“I have a certain obligation. It is his (Advani) prerogative,” he said.

He said he had a ‘chance meeting’ with Advani at the airport.

Asked whether he considered BJP as a political adversary, he said, “they are our political adversary and we have fundamental differences with them.”

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He was speaking at a luncheon hosted by AICC Media Department chairman M Veerappa Moily.