Lawyer Jaiveer Shergill is one of the prominent young faces of the party.
New Delhi:
Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill today resigned in a letter in a scathing attack on the Gandhi family, saying “the vision of the party’s decision-makers is no longer in line with the aspirations of the youth”. He told reporters that the three Gandhi families had refused to meet him for more than a year, saying he “severed all ties” with the party.
“The decision of the Congress party is no longer in line with the ground reality. I have been seeking time from Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for more than a year, but we are not welcome in the office, Jaiveer Shergill said.
“In the last eight years, I did not take anything from the Congress, only put in the party. Today when I am being forced to bow before the people because they are close to the top leadership – it is not acceptable to me,” he told news agency. was quoted by ANI as saying.
Mr Shergill said the sycophancy “eats Congress like termites”.
He said in a resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi that the primary reason for his move was that the ideology and vision of the current decision makers of the Congress were no longer in line with the aspirations of the youth and modern India.
“Besides, I am sad to say that decision-making is no longer in the interest of the public and the country. Rather, it is influenced by the selfish interests of the persons indulging in sycophancy and continuously ignoring the ground reality. is something I cannot ethically accept or continue to work with,” Mr Shergill wrote.
The 39-year-old lawyer was among the youngest and most prominent spokespersons of the Congress. He had not appeared in the party’s media briefing for some time.
His resignation this month is the third after two stalwarts Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma resigned from party posts in their home states. Both leaders are part of the “G-23” or group of 23 insurgents, which in 2020 wrote to Sonia Gandhi calling for an overhaul of the organization with “full-time and visible leadership”.
In the past few years, the Congress has lost many leaders, battling electoral defeats and an organizational drift. An exodus began in 2020 with the exit of Jyotiraditya Scindia, now a Union minister, and Jitin Prasada, the UP minister. This year former Union ministers Kapil Sibal, Ashwini Kumar and RPN Singh quit the party.