In extra hassle for the Congress, its National Spokesperson, Rohan Gupta, resigned from all posts and the first membership of the occasion as we speak (March 22), citing “constant humiliation” and “character assassination by one of the senior leaders in the Communication Department” of the grand previous occasion and an insult to Sanatan Dharma.
The resignation by Rohan Gupta comes a day after the Congress was left red-faced on Thursday (March 21) by senior chief Anand Sharma castigating the occasion and opposing former occasion President Rahul Gandhi’s caste census promise. In a letter to occasion President, Mallikarjun Kharge, veteran chief Anand Sharma wrote that the Congress by no means engaged nor endorsed identification politics and therefore it’s detrimental to democracy.
Just just a few days earlier than his resignation on Friday, Rohan Gupta had withdrawn his candidacy from the Ahmedabad East Lok Sabha seat. Rohan Gupta’s father, Rajkumar Gupta, was as soon as an MLA in Gujarat and had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2004.
Resignation letter to Mallikarjun Kharge
In his resignation letter to Congress chief Kharge, Rohan Gupta stated that he had served the occasion with honesty and sincerity with the help of the nationwide management and it was probably the most “difficult decision of his life” to withdraw his candidature and put his private ambitions apart.
Without naming anybody, Rohan Gupta acknowledged that at the same time as he was going by way of a private disaster due to his father’s sickness, the identical chief had continued his smear marketing campaign towards him “for the last three days with the support of his close aides in Gujarat and at the national level.”
He wrote that he was going by way of a number of “mental agony” and “stress” due to the chief’s behaviour and this had compelled him to resign. Apart from the resignation letter to the occasion chief, the chief additionally put out a publish on micro-blogging website X, which gave a bigger image of the infighting inside the Congress.
In his emotional publish on X, Rohan Gupta wrote, “I spent the final 3 days with my father whereas he’s battling critical well being situations, which has actually helped me perceive his perspective.
“He narrated the incidences of betrayal and sabotage for the final 40 years and the way the leaders acquired away regardless of their ill-doings. The wounds of these incidences have nonetheless not healed, which I might see in his tears.
“He doesn’t want me to pay the same price as the whole family has seen the mental trauma I have gone through in the last two years, which was caused by the senior leader connected with the Communication Department.”
He added, “I am not afraid of anything. But when there is a systematic conspiracy to betray me, I need to raise my voice. My humbleness should not be considered as my weakness. I have learnt my lessons the hard way. I took the most difficult decision of my life of withdrawing my candidature. Now I am taking another most difficult decision of leaving the party after serving it for the last 15 years because of constant humiliation and character assassination by the leader connected with the Communication Department.”
Humiliation confronted by Rohan Gupta
“The person who has humiliated me for the last two years, the person who has not budged from doing it in the last three days, I am sure that he will not refrain from doing it in future and nobody will be able stop him. But now I am not ready to take any more assault on my self-esteem,” he wrote in his publish.
He continued that the identical chief had broken the Congress occasion additionally along with his conceited and impolite behaviour.
“Due to his extreme Leftist mindset he ensured the party’s silence on insult of Sanatan Dharma which hurt me personally and I was forcefully stopped from opposition (to) insult of Sanatan Dharma on national TV. This has done serious damage to the party’s image and to the morale of the party’s leaders. The leadership should not ignore such activities by such leaders which leaves imprints of insult on the souls of honest workers and leaders and compels them to leave the party. Some might see conspiracy here but people close to me will understand my viewpoint,” he acknowledged within the publish.
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