Former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Sunil Jakhar on Saturday give up the Grand Old Party in a dramatic type by asserting his resignation on Facebook Live. This improvement got here a number of hours after he had eliminated Congress from all his social media handles.
“This [Facebook live address] is going to be my parting gift to the party,” he stated.
Jakhar had been stripped of his celebration posts for 2 years a fortnight again for “not toeing the party line.” Jakhar stated that he was upset on the Congress determination as his household served the celebration for 3 generations for over a interval of fifty years. A day after Jakhar tweeted that he would pour his coronary heart out on Saturday, he resigned. Jakhar stated the leaders had no intention of saving the celebration whereas calling the continued ‘Chintan Shiver’ as a mere formality. After the celebration’s debacle within the Uttar Pradesh state meeting elections earlier this 12 months, Jakhar took an oblique dig on the Congress General Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Jakhar additionally known as Rahul Gandhi a ‘good person’ whereas warning him to distance himself from ‘sycophants’.
On the Congress’ alternative of a Chief Ministerial face after the resignation of Captain Amarinder Singh, Jakhar had accused the celebration of listening to a sure Punjab chief.
After Congress misplaced to Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab earlier this 12 months, Jakhar denounced former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi as a legal responsibility. “Not the top brass, but his [Channi’s] own greed pulled him and the party down,” Jakhar had stated in a tweet. Jakhar additionally hit out at Rajya Sabha MP Ambika Soni’s touch upon ‘repercussions of having a Hindu chief minister in Punjab’ and blamed her for the celebration’s loss in Punjab.
Many inside the celebration strongly objected to Jakhar’s remarks towards Channi and the scheduled caste neighborhood throughout an interview. Jakhar defended himself by saying that his phrases have been getting used towards him by taking them out of context.
According to an Indian Express report, Jakhar had accused his celebration for not selecting him as a chief ministerial candidate as he was a Hindu.
Jakhar was thought-about as one of many options to Amarinder Singh after Singh had stepped down from the CM put up.
Before quitting, Jakhar was but to answer to a show-cause discover issued by the disciplinary motion committee of the Congress final month alleging that he made “a derogatory statement against Congress leaders and also attributed motives to the leadership of thinking on communal lines.”
Source: www.financialexpress.com”