Former senior Congress leader PC Chacko joins Sharad Pawar’s NCP.
PC Chacko, who resigned from the Congress final week, joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday. Chacko joined the NCP in New Delhi within the presence of occasion chief Sharad Pawar and senior leader Praful Patel.
Speaking to journalists after becoming a member of the NCP, Chacko mentioned it was like ‘homecoming for him’.
“I am happy to be in NCP, it’s like a homecoming for me. I had the opportunity to work with Pawar sahab in the most difficult times,” Chacko mentioned.
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PC Chacko, who was a former working committee member of the Congress, criticised the Sonia Gandhi-led occasion and mentioned that the organisation lacked the need to be a powerful opposition.
“Country needs a strong opposition, I didn’t see much of the effort from the party I was in,” Chacko, who’s the second senior leader to give up the Congress after Jyotiraditya Scindia, mentioned.
Chacko mentioned he can be campaigning for the LDF in the course of the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala. “I have become a part of LDF now…I will be touring Kerala and will be campaigning for LDF,” he mentioned.
Chacko had resigned from the Congress alleging that there was no democracy left within the occasion.
“No democracy left in Congress. Candidate list (for Kerala election) has not been discussed with the state Congress committee,” he had mentioned.
“I come from Kerala where there’s no Congress party as such. There are two parties Congress (I) and Congress (A). It’s a coordination committee of two parties functioning as KPCC,” Chacko mentioned.
Referring to the interval of vacuum created within the occasion’s nationwide management after Rahul Gandhi give up the submit of Congress president following the occasion’s defeat within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Chacko mentioned, “the Congress had been headless for the last one-and-a-half years”.
(With PTI inputs)
