New Delhi: Former UPA minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday said she would quit the Congress party on Friday as she blamed Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for her exit.

Natarajan alleged that she was forced by the party to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi on snoopgate, though she considered it "wrong."

Jayanthi Natarajan in her letter wrote, “While I was still a minister, an important matter which has caused me great agitation is the fact that I was called upon to attack the present Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on what is referred to in the media as 'Snoopgate'.”

"Despite the fact that I initially refused, because I thought that the party should attack Shri Modi on policy and governance and not drag an unknown woman into a controversy," Jayanti said she had no choice in the matter.

In October last year, the investigation into the ‘snoopgate’ case was cancelled by the Gujarat high court, based on a petition of the woman's father, who called it a "private matter."