"Not Attended In 5 Years," Says Varun Gandhi, Dropped From Top BJP Body
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"I have not attended a single NEC for the last five years. I do not think I was on it," Varun Gandhi was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
BJP MP Varun Gandhi -- who had made headlines with his sharply critical tweets about the death of farmers in UP's Lakhimpur Khiri -- today brushed off his exclusion from the BJP's 80-member national executive. "I have not attended a single NEC for the last five years. I do not think I was on it," the 41-year-old who has been with the party for 17 years, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
The names of Mr Gandhi and his mother Maneka Gandhi did not feature in the list made public by the BJP today.
There were two other omissions -- Subramanian Swamy, who was seen as being critical of the party of late and former Union minister Birender Singh, who was also seen as sympathetic towards the farmers' protests against the Centre's farm laws.
Many Union Ministers and veteran leaders like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi have made It to the list.
