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Punjab Congress chief and previous finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal cease the birthday birthday celebration on Wednesday and blamed its pinnacle brass for factionalism. The improvement got here an afternoon after Rahul Gandhi’s-led Bharat Jodo Yatra crossed Punjab the day prior to this and entered Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday morning.
In a letter addressed to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, Manpreet Badal wrote that a coterie of guys in Delhi is walking affairs in Punjab and feature most effective extended factionalism. He resigned from the number one club of the Congress birthday birthday celebration and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today.
Badal is most effective the modern-day in a sequence of pinnacle Congress leaders quitting the birthday birthday celebration, with a lot of them becoming a member of the BJP. If Himanta Biswa Sarma left the birthday birthday celebration in 2015, Ghulam Nabi Azad did so in September final year. And, in between, there were many others consisting of Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kapil Sibal, Ashwani Kumar, RPN Singh, Jitin Prasada, Sushmita Dev, Sunil Jakhar, Hardik Patel, N Biren Singh, Prema Khandu, PC Chacko, and Jaiveer Shergill.
Ghulam Nabi Azad ended his 5 a long time of courting with the Congress in a 5-web page letter addressed to Congress period in-between president Sonia Gandhi. Several leaders from the Congress’s Jammu & Kashmir unit additionally resigned to sign up for Azad, who’s set to shape his personal birthday birthday celebration.
Azad stated Rahul Gandhi “demolished the complete consultative mechanism of the Congress” after he entered politics, mainly after he changed into made the birthday birthday celebration vp via way of means of Sonia Gandhi. It is really well worth citing that Rahul has been Congress president most effective for 2 years from 2017 to 2019.
Himanta Biswa Sarma’s 1,600-phrase resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi in 2015 says: “Rahul Gandhi changed into smug to me and Assam Congress MLAs who desired Tarun Gogoi’s ouster, and stated it changed into his prerogative to alternate leader ministers. He believed he changed into mightier than the humans of Assam. He is self-serving and insecure and has whimsical idiosyncrasies. My spouse and I have been humiliated. The birthday birthday celebration promotes despotic own circle of relatives politics. It betrayed the humans of Assam.”
A key strategist withinside the then-ruling Congress in Assam and the relaxation of the North-East, Sarma ended his 23 years of affiliation with the grand vintage birthday birthday celebration in 2015 and joined the BJP with a gaggle of MLAs in tow.
This accompanied variations with the Congress management over his push for a generational shift withinside the nation from “an inept” vintage-defend chief Tarun Gogoi to him. Ironically, this push had met with resistance from Rahul Gandhi, gave the impression to be pro-young. Sarma’s elevation changed into nearly showed via way of means of Sonia Gandhi however it changed into reportedly red-flagged via way of means of Rahul Gandhi, despite the fact that he changed into nonetheless a great years farfar from turning into the Congress’s countrywide president.
The BJP commenced snatching northeastern states from the Congress as Sarma have become the saffron birthday birthday celebration’s go-to guy for the region, receiving large interest from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sarma is now Assam’s leader minister. Sarma has now stated the contents of Azad’s resignation letter have been just like his.
“I had stated a time might come while most effective the Gandhis might be left withinside the Congress, and all loyalists might leave. This is what’s happening. The hassle withinside the Congress is that everyone is aware of Rahul Gandhi is immature, whimsical and unpredictable however the Congress president isn’t always looking after the birthday birthday celebration. She has been looking to sell Rahul Gandhi who’s a blessing for the BJP,” Sarma stated after Azad’s resignation.
Before Azad, Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar additionally left the Congress final year. A distinguished member of the G23 organization of dissenting Congress leaders, Sibal regularly stated that Rahul Gandhi takes all of the decisions, like making Charanjit Singh Channi Punjab’s CM which additionally brought about Sunil Jakhar’s resignation, withinside the Congress aleven though he isn’t always the president.
Bringing his forty six years of affiliation with the Congress to an end, Ashwani Kumar had stated the birthday birthday celebration had misplaced contact with floor realities and slammed the Gandhis for humiliating Amarinder Singh into quitting as Punjab leader minister. Making Singh’s bête noire Navjot Singh Sidhu the Punjab Congress leader proper earlier than the nation polls that the AAP swept changed into visible as Rahul Gandhi’s decision.
Ending his 3 a long time of courting with the Congress, Sibal had additionally stated that the Gandhis have to make manner for brand spanking new management.
Azad has stated Rahul Gandhi showed “immaturity” in 2013 via way of means of publicly tearing an ordinance (visible as a device to defend best friend RJD’s Lalu Yadav and others) of his personal birthday birthday celebration’s authorities on the Centre and the “infantile behaviour… absolutely subverted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s authority” and contributed considerably to the UPA’s defeat in 2014. Rahul Gandhi changed into now no longer but birthday birthday celebration president even then.
Jyotiraditya Scindia cease the Congress in 2020 and ended his 18 years of affiliation with the birthday birthday celebration with a brief and quieter resignation letter addressed to Sonia Gandhi. A bunch of birthday birthday celebration MLAs from Kamal Nath’s authorities in Madhya Pradesh accompanied Scindia, who joined the BJP. The saffron birthday birthday celebration back to electricity in Madhya Pradesh.
Though Jyotiraditya Scindia, whose father Madhavrao Scindia changed into additionally a Congress minister on the Centre, later stated Kamal Nath’s inactiveness on many ballot guarantees as one of the motives for his resignation, it changed into recognised that he changed into being snubbed via way of means of the Congress for a management position for a while. He desired to transport to Delhi however there has been no clean guarantee of a Rajya Sabha seat. “I desired to serve the humans of my nation and country. But I couldn’t try this anymore inside this birthday birthday celebration,” he stated.
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