"The 'Missing' Surat Candidate Resurfaces After 20 Days": "Congress Betrayed Me"

Surat: On Saturday, after a 20-day hiatus, suspended Congress politician Nilesh Kumbhani made a comeback. He said that the grand old party was the one who had initially deceived him in 2017, when his nomination form was rejected due to flaws that allowed the BJP to win the Surat Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat without opposition. According to Nilesh Kumbhani, he has been silent for the past several days out of respect for the state party's president, Shaktisinh Gohil, and Paresh Dhanani, the party's candidate for the Rajkot Lok Sabha. "Leaders in Congress are calling me a traitor. But when my ticket for the Kamrej Assembly seat in Surat was abruptly canceled during the 2017 assembly elections, it was the Congress that initially deceived me. Not me, but the Congress made the initial error, Nilesh Kumbhani informed reporters.