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Party had no option but to suspend Natwar: Gehlot

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JAIPUR: Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said that the party had no option but to suspend its senior leader and former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh. "Mr. Singh invited trouble for himself by his action and his words," Mr.Gehlot said.

Talking to The Hindu on phone from Udaipur, Mr. Gehlot said Mr. Singh turned out to be a "big disappointment" for both the Congress party and the people of Rajasthan, from where the latter hails. "He created such a situation that the party had no other way but to take action against him," Mr. Gehlot said.

"The party or the people here did not expect such a behaviour from a person who got all the support from the Nehru family and the Congress in the past. As Mr. Singh himself has been telling all these days, what he is today is due to the Nehru family," Mr. Gehlot noted.

"Look at the company he keeps now. If Amar Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Dijvijay Singh are his conscience keepers, we in the Congress have nothing to say," Mr. Gehlot observed. "Everybody knows what Amar Singh has been talking about Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the past," he said.

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