'Upset' with Congress view on Ram Mandir & wealth creators, party spokesperson Gourav Vallabh joins BJP

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New Delhi: Mere hours after Prof Gourav Vallabh resigned from the Congress Thursday, the former spokesperson for the party joined the BJP in Delhi...

He had earlier quit the Congress citing disagreement over the partys view on the Ram temple consecration, its silence on people speaking against Sanatana (Dharma) and its stand against wealth creators, among other reasons...

In a letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Thursday, Vallabh, a former professor at JamshedpursXLRI-Xavier School of Management, wrotethat the party is not able to adjust itself with the youth with new ideas...

Many people associated with the party and the alliance speak against Sanatan(sic), and the partys silence on it is like giving tacit approval to it, Vallabh,who has in the past claimed to be strongly religious, said, adding that ideas of religion are intensely personal and not for public consumption...

Today we have turned against those economic liberalization, privatization, and globalization (LPG) policies for which the world has given us full credit for implementing in the country, he wrote, adding that the partys view on every disinvestment taking place in the country was always negative...