As Congress continued to bleed, the former member of Rajya Sabha MA Khan on Saturday resigned from the party in Telangana.
In his letter to senior Congress leadership, Khan said, “The Indian National Congress party has completely failed to persuade the public that it can reclaim its former grandeur and lead the country forward.”
The party saw a downhill journey, he said, after Rahul Gandhi handled the post of vice-president of the party committee. “He has a different thought process of his own, which doesn’t match with any member, from block level to booth level,” Khan added.
He further said that he had been associated with the party for over four decades, right from his student days.
“The senior leaders are forced to resign from the party because the top leadership is not making any attempts to reactivate the party’s grassroots cadres and continue serving the country with the same commitment and dedication that the party demonstrated under the leadership of Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi Ji, Sanjay Gandhi Ji, and Rajeev Ji. Given the situation, I had no choice but to decide to stop participating in the party’s operations,” Khan said.
“I, therefore, have no option except to disassociate myself from affairs of the Congress Party, hereby tender my resignation to the primary membership of the Indian National Congress (INC) party with immediate effect,” he wrote.
Earlier on Friday, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad quit the party. In his resignation letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, he mentioned Rahul Gandhi and accused him of “non-seriousness”. He also claimed the presence of a coterie withi