New Delhi:
Expelled Congress leader Simi Rose Bell John, removed from the party's Kerala unit last week amid claims of a "casting couch" within the state ranks, told NDTV Monday that she will "reach out to Sonia Gandhi" to highlight her allegations. "I am not afraid... I will fight," she declared.
Ms Bell John had said that only those close to the Congress' senior leaders in the southern state get opportunities. On Sunday she was expelled from the party, the state unit of which said her allegations were aimed at harassing and defaming lakhs of other women leaders and workers.
She was acting, it was also claimed, "in collusion with political adversaries".