[ad_1]
Senior Congress chief and former Haryana minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav Thursday resigned because the chairman of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) ‘s OBC wing and from the celebration’s main membership, alleging “shabby remedy” by the celebration excessive command “after Sonia Gandhi left the put up of Congress president”.
The resignation of Yadav, a five-time MLA, comes days after the Congress misplaced the Haryana Meeting elections amid bitter infighting and on the day when the BJP’s Nayab Singh Saini, additionally an OBC, took oath for the second time because the Chief Minister.
“I’ve despatched my resignation letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge from (the put up of ) chairman, AICC OBC division, and likewise from (the) main membership of the Indian Nationwide Congress,” Yadav mentioned in a put up on X.
He mentioned the choice to stop the Congress was “actually arduous” as his household had “70 years of affiliation” with the celebration. He mentioned his father late Rao Abhey Singh was elected as an MLA in 1952 and “thereafter I continued with household custom however (I) am disillusioned with the celebration excessive command for treating me shabbily after Sonia Gandhi left the put up of Congress president”.
It was not but confirmed if Kharge has accepted Yadav’s resignation, however sources near the veteran chief mentioned that it was possible that he shall be becoming a member of the BJP within the coming days. “His son Chiranjeev Rao, who unsuccessfully contested the Meeting elections from Rewari, can also transfer on,” a senior chief advised The Indian Categorical.
Whereas there have been no speedy reactions from the Congress, the BJP hit out on the grand outdated celebration. The ruling celebration’s IT cell head Amit Malviya, in an X put up, mentioned, “Capt Ajay Singh Yadav…criticised Rahul Gandhi and Congress management for not giving satisfactory illustration to SC, ST and OBCs within the CWC and CEC. He has now resigned. Pressured?. Rahul Gandhi who retains speaking about caste, can’t even give respect to OBC leaders in Congress.”
BJP nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla too accused the Congress of being allegedly an anti-OBC and anti-Dalit celebration, and demanded that Rahul Gandhi should inform the nation why Yadav was “insulted” throughout the Haryana Meeting polls.
Yadav’s resignation comes six months after one other Congress veteran after which Tosham MLA, Kiran Choudhry, and her daughter and former MP Shruti Choudhry crossed over to the BJP fold. Shruti subsequently received the Meeting elections from Tosham and was sworn-in as a minister in Saini’s Cupboard Thursday.
A recognized detractor of senior Congress chief and ex-CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Yadav had hit out on the celebration’s state management over the electoral debacle, saying that the tussle for changing into the CM even earlier than getting the folks’s mandate was a “massive blunder”.
Yadav had mentioned the celebration ought to introspect for its failure in southern Haryana, particularly Gurgaon, Rewari, Mahendragarh and Faridabad the place it received only one seat as in opposition to 10 by the BJP.
Yadav had received 5 consecutive phrases from Rewari. In 2019, celebration had fielded his son Chiranjeev, who received. This time, nonetheless, Chiranjeev misplaced to the BJP’s Laxman Singh Yadav by 28,769 votes. Aside from the Congress leaders, the RJD’s Tej Pratap Yadav had performed highway reveals for Chiranjeev, who’s married to RJD supremo Lalu Yadav’s daughter.
After the loss, an indignant Ajay Yadav had mentioned that his put up had been decreased to little greater than a “jhunjhuna (a toy)”. He additionally questioned why the Ahirwal area has no illustration within the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Central Election Committee (CEC), as AICC common secretaries and even in Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC).
“The result’s that we received worn out in Gurgaon, Mahendragarh, Rewari and Faridabad… If you happen to don’t deliver OBCs into the mainstream throughout the celebration, it sends the fallacious message,” Yadav had mentioned, including that even his {photograph} was lacking from celebration posters. “What sort of an OBC wing chairman have you ever made me?” Yadav requested.
A science and regulation graduate, Yadav was inducted within the Military as Second Lieutenant in 1988 and resigned seven years later, when he was a Captain. A local of Saharanwas village in Rewari, he then joined politics and contested the 1991 Meeting elections from Rewari. He received and retained the seat subsequently in 1996, 2000, 2005 and 2009. Within the 2014 Meeting polls, Yadav completed a distant third with BJP’s then candidate Randhir Singh Kapriwas successful the seat.
Yadav had been a Minister of Energy, Forests and Setting within the Hooda-led Congress authorities. He additionally held portfolios of Irrigation, Income and Elections. In February 2022, he was appointed because the chairman of the AICC’s OBC wing.
[ad_2]
