Sanjay Nirupam has been expelled from the Congress party.
Mumbai:
A day after being expelled from the party, former Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam, who claimed that he has already tendered his resignation letter to the party president, attacked his former party saying it has five power centres.
“The Congress Party is a completely dispersed party. The party’s leaders have earlier said that its ideology is directionless, but now they are scattered in terms of their organization,” Nirupam said.
Explaining the organizational structure of the Congress, Mr. Nirupam said, “Earlier, there was one power center within the Congress and there was a cabal and all other leaders fought against them. Currently, you will be surprised to know that the Congress party has five power centres.”
Revealing each of the power centers, Mr. Nirupam said all five have their own caucus and lobby that compete with each other.
“The five different centers of power have their individual caucuses, their lobbies that clash with each other. In the middle of this, lakhs of workers like me are stuck. In these five centres, the first is Sonia Gandhi, the second is Rahul Gandhi, the third is his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the fourth is President Mallikarjun Kharge. The people around him are those who have no political ideology and have suddenly become the high command by joining Kharge. The last center of power is the Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal.”
“Those who were meritorious are in a bad state and are deteriorating. I observed this for a few years but then I lost my patience,” he added.
The former Rajya Sabha MP has also criticized his former party, saying they ultimately wasted an A-4 size piece of paper.
“Yesterday around 10.40 pm I sent my resignation letter to Mallikarjun Kharge. I think soon after they were provoked by my statement in the resignation letter. They may have thought that it would be too much if they did not respond and then they took such a decision (to expel him from the party). Therefore, they (Congress) have finally wasted an A-4 size paper,” Mr Nirupam said at a press conference on Thursday.
Explaining what led to him submitting his resignation, the former Congress leader said, “When I came to know that they were in a mood to take action, I asked them not to waste their stationery and I will make an announcement today.”
The senior leader was expelled from the Congress for ‘indiscipline’ and ‘anti-party statements’, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said in a statement on Wednesday evening.
“Following the complaints of indiscipline and anti-party statements, the Congress President has approved the expulsion of Shri Sanjay Nirupam from the party for six years with immediate effect,” Venugopal said.
Mr Nirupam was earlier in the day removed from the list of top campaigners for the Congress Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha general elections.
Action was taken over his recent comments against INDIA block partner Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) during seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha elections.
Shiv Sena (UBT) declared that its candidate Amol Kirtikar will contest from Mumbai North West, a seat that Sanjay Nirupam was keen to contest from.
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