‘Treated shabbily’: Former Haryana minister Ajay Yadav quits Congress
The veteran politician recently criticised his party’s state unit for alleged infighting ahead of the recent Assembly elections, which the BJP won.
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Five-time MLA and former Haryana minister Ajay Singh Yadav resigned from the Congress on Thursday, days after the party lost the state elections to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Yadav said he was “disillusioned with the party high command for treating me shabbily after Sonia Gandhi left the post of Congress President”. Gandhi quit the post in 2017, returning to it briefly in 2019.
“I have sent my resignation letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s ji from Chairman Committee AICC [All India Congress Committee], OBC [Other Backward Class] Department and also from the primary membership of Indian National Congress Party,” Yadav said in a post on X.
I have sent my resignation letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s ji from Chairman AICC OBC Department and also from primary membership of Indian national congress party @kharge @RahulGandhi @SoniaGandhiiINC— Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav (@CaptAjayYadav) October 17, 2024
The 65-year-old described his resignation as a “hard decision” due to his family’s 70-year association with the Congress, which began with his late father becoming an MLA in 1952.
Yadav is the third prominent Congress leader in Haryana to quit the party in recent years, reported PTI.
Earlier this year, four-time former MLA Kiran Choudhry, whose father-in-law Bansi Lal served as the chief minister of Haryana three times, defected to the BJP and...
