Recently, party leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma have also resigned from the post of chairman of Congress Committee of Jammu and Kashmir and chief of the ‘steering committee’ of the party’s Himachal Pradesh unit respectively.
New Delhi: Days after resignations of veteran leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma from key party posts in their respective states, another senior leader and party’s national spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill on Wednesday stepped down from his post. The 39-year-old leader was among the youngest spokespersons of the Congress. Shergill, a lawyer, is among the prominent young faces of the party.
In a letter written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Shergill said that the vision of the party’s decision-makers is no longer in sync with the aspirations of the youth. The leader, in his letter, also took sharp jabs at Gandhis as he raised the issue of sycophancy in the party.
The Congress leader, in his letter, said that the ideology and the vision of the current decision-makers of the Congress is no longer in sync with the aspirations of the youth and modern India.
“Decision making is no longer for the interests of the public and country, rather it is influenced by the self-serving interests of individuals indulging in sycophancy and ignoring ground reality,” wrote Shergill as he quit the Congress.
Recently, party leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma have also resigned from the post of chairman of Congress Committee of Jammu and Kashmir and chief of the ‘steering committee’ of the party’s Himachal Pradesh unit respectively. Azad, former Chief Minister of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, had stepped down from the post hours after his appointment by central leadership of the party. Anand Sharma had said that he has been given the continuing exclusion and insults, as a self-respecting person he had left with no choice. Sharma is deputy leader of the Congress in Rajya Sabha.
Sharma had also written a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi informing the decision to quit the post which was given him in April this year by the party’s high command. His decision to resign from the post was a jolt for the party ahead of Himachal Pradesh assembly elections and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
