In a significant blow to the Congress party’s preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Abdul Khaleque, the Member of Parliament from Assam’s Barpeta constituency, announced his resignation from the party’s primary membership on Friday.
Khaleque formally tendered his resignation to the President of the Indian National Congress, Mallikarjun Kharge, in a move that underscores growing discontent within the party’s ranks.
In his resignation letter addressed to Kharge, Khaleque expressed his dismay over the Congress party’s departure from its traditional focus on people-centric issues. He lamented, “Off late, the party in Assam has taken a strange route where people centric issues have taken a back seat. To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and oneness. But unfortunately, over a period of time, I feel that the attitude and approach taken by the party’s state President and AICC General Secretary in-charge has ruined the prospect of the party in Assam.”
