"Well-Planned Strategy": PM Modi Said Sam Pitroda Would Be Reinstated

Sam Pitroda had stepped down from the post after his two consecutive statements sparked huge controversies.

Congress's Sam Pitroda -- who had to step down from the post of its overseas unit chief in the run-up to the general election -- is back in the saddle again. That he would be reinstated, was said by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an interview to NDTV.

"I sometimes think the party (the Congress), in a well-planned way, does this. I don't think they do this on their own. Then they are kept out of the party for a  few days. Then they come back in the mainstream again," PM Modi had said in May.

"This is what they did with their guru in America. He has resigned. Now he will be brought back again after a while... It is their well-considered strategy to create confusion in the country, change the atmosphere, create new issues, compel their opponents to react on these issues," he had told NDTV.