New Delhi:
Former Union Minister Ashwani Kumar right this moment stop the Congress, his get together of greater than 4 many years, calling it a call that was “in line with my dignity”.
Ashwani Kumar was Regulation Minister within the Manmohan Singh-led Congress authorities between 2009 and 2014.
In his resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, shared by information companies, Dr Kumar wrote, “Having given my considerate consideration to the matter, I’ve concluded that within the current circumstances and in line with my dignity, I can finest subserve bigger nationwide trigger exterior the get together fold.”
He additionally stated he “hoped to proactively pursue public causes impressed by the concept of transformative management, based mostly on the dignitarian promise of a liberal democracy envisioned by our freedom fighters.”
Dr Kumar informed the Indian Categorical that “inside processes” of the Congress diminished particular person leaders.
“The continual decline of the Congress by way of vote share, by way of standard help clearly reveals that the get together is out of sync with the way in which the nation thinks,” he informed the Categorical.
He additionally stated on Rahul Gandhi that the “nationwide temper just isn’t in favour of the choice that the Congress get together presents to the individuals by way of its future management.”
That is the most recent exit from the Congress, weeks after the get together misplaced RPN Singh, one other former Union Minister and an enormous chief in Uttar Pradesh.
Final month, RPN Singh, a frontrunner who was near the Gandhis and was a part of Rahul Gandhi’s core staff, stop the Congress and joined the BJP inside hours.
The excessive profile exits began with Jyotiraditya Scindia, who in 2020 switched to the BJP, bringing down the Madhya Pradesh Congress authorities. He’s now Aviation Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities.
Final yr, one other key UP chief, Jitin Prasada, left the get together. He quickly joined Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s authorities.
However Dr Kumar is the primary senior Union Minister to stop the get together because the Congress misplaced energy in 2014. He was counted among the many get together’s veterans and an enormous Gandhi household loyalist.
The inside churn within the Congress went public when a bunch of 23 leaders – dubbed the G-23 – wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi calling for main reforms within the get together, together with a visual and “full-time management” and collective decision-making.
Paradoxically, Dr Kumar had strongly defended the Gandhis on the time and had criticised the letter-writers.
Most leaders within the group stay with the Congress however they’ve typically voiced their criticism brazenly.
Just lately, the announcement of a Padma award for Ghulam Nabi Azad – one of many G-23 – ignited one other spherical of Congress versus Congress with Gandhi household loyalists accusing the previous Union Minister of leaning in direction of the BJP.
