New Delhi: Union Minister Harish Rawat on Tuesday made it clear that he will not quit the Congress, saying "my fight is within the Congress umbrella."
"I have proved the point that I have MLAs with me. I have proved that I have more than half the MLAs. The matter ends here as far I'm concerned," he told CNN-IBN.
He also denied reports that he has met BJP president Nitin Gadkari. "I have not met Gadkari. I'm Congress' 'Balika Badhu'."
Rawat, a Rajput leader who was elected to Lok Sabha first in 1980 defeating BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi, was pipped to the post in the race for Chief Ministership when Sonia Gandhi chose Vijay Bahuguna, a Brahmin, for the Uttarakhand Chief Minister post.
Since then, Rawat, Minister of State for Agriculture and Parliamentary Affairs, had been upset and had made it plain to the party that he has been overlooked a second time after ND Tiwari was preferred over him ten years ago.
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