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"I feel very hurt by Banerjee's decision. Whenever she has been in any kind of problem, only man she could turn to was George Fernandes. And when time came for a crucial decision, she did not even show enough courtesy to talk to me," Fernandes told reporters after addressing Samata Party and BJP workers who had come to express their solidarity with him at his residence in New Delhi.
To a question whether he would also resign as Convenor of the NDA in the wake of Tehelka.com expose, the Samata Party leader shot back, "Why should I"?
Fernandes said that he was also against his Samata Party colleagues Nitish Kumar, Digvijay Singh and V Sreenivas Prasad, resigning from the Union Ministry as the 'Samata Party, a founder of the NDA, had a very big responsibility to shoulder'.
"We should not forget that we had come to Parliament on a common manifesto of the NDA. I have been asking them not to press for their resignations," he said.
Asked whether they have accepted his advice, he said, "They have stuck to their decision."
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