The crisis in the Karnataka Congress has blown over with the former Railway Minister, C.K. Jaffer Sharief, withdrawing his resignation from the party following a meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Sunday.
Speaking to journalists, Mr. Sharief, who is also chairman of the party’s manifesto committee for the Karnataka Assembly elections, said that Ms. Gandhi stressed the need for the party to be united and to work for the cause of secularism. He agreed with her view. The discussion was satisfying, he said.
“In one year, the country will go for Parliamentary elections. The first priority is to defeat communalism. Karnataka will be the first State to do that.”
Mr. Sharief was accompanied by one of his grandsons.
Mr. Sharif’s action has ended speculation that he was set to join the Bahujan Samaj Party headed by Mayawati or the Nationalist Congress Party led by Sharad Pawar
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