Chandigarh. Soon after the Haryana Assembly elections, Congress leader and former minister Captain Ajay Singh Yadav left the party on Thursday, alleging ill-treatment towards him. He said he was leaving the party and also resigning from the post of president of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) department of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
Yadav (65) said, “After Sonia Gandhi stepped down from the post of Congress President, I have become disillusioned with the party high command due to the poor treatment I received.” In a post on ‘X’, he said, “I have sent my resignation from the post of President of the OBC department of the All India Congress Committee and from the primary membership of the Congress Party to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.” In this post he has also tagged Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
Yadav said on ‘X’, “This decision to resign was really difficult, because my family had a connection with it for 70 years. My father late Rao Abhay Singh became MLA in 1952 and after that I continued the family tradition, but after Sonia Gandhi stepped down from the post of Congress President, I have become disillusioned with the party high command due to the poor treatment I received.” Yadav is the third prominent leader to leave Congress in the last few years. The other two leaders include Kuldeep Bishnoi and Kiran Chaudhary and both of them are now in BJP.
Yadav had recently commented on the alleged infighting in the party’s state unit ahead of the assembly elections. Yadav had recently said that the tussle in Haryana Congress over becoming the Chief Minister before getting the mandate was a big mistake. Yadav’s son Chiranjeev Rao had lost the election from Rewari assembly seat.
Yadav had said the Congress should introspect for its failure in southern Haryana, especially in Gurugram, Rewari, Mahendragarh and Faridabad, where the BJP won 10 out of 11 seats while the Congress won only one seat. It is believed that Yadav was unhappy with his party over the selection of several candidates for the Haryana elections. Yadav, who was a minister in the previous Bhupendra Hooda government, never had cordial relations with him.
The BJP on Tuesday accused the Congress of being an anti-OBC and anti-Dalit party and demanded that Rahul Gandhi should tell the country why he ‘insulted’ the party’s OBC front president Captain Ajay Singh Yadav during the Haryana Assembly elections. Went.