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Sunil Jakhar latest to release sinking Congress ship. From Jitin Prasada to RPN Singh, take a look at recent exits

May 14, 2022
Bharat Times

(From left) Sunil Jakhar, Jitin Prasad and RPN Singh

The move by the veteran leader is also the latest in a series of splits from the party, which has been unable to reverse its political fortunes due to infighting, lack of decision making at the top level and the BJP.

After months of speculation, which included a jolt to a hot, cold relationship, veteran Congress leader Sunil Jakhar on Saturday quit the party, even in a rush to a ‘chintan’ camp at Grand Old Party Udaipur. is gone. Roadmap for its rejuvenation.

After Jakhar’s exit, the Congress leadership took action against him for his alleged anti-party activities. The move by the veteran leader is also the latest in a series of splits from the party, which has been unable to reverse its political fortunes due to infighting, lack of decision making at the top level and the BJP.

News18 A look at the recent Congress exit:

  1. Ripun Bora: Former Assam Congress President Ripun Bora joined All India Trinamool Congress in Kolkata and became the latest leader to quit the oldest party in Assam. “From today I have started my new political journey!” Bora had tweeted while sharing his resignation addressed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
  2. Ashwini Kumar: Former Union Minister Ashwini Kumar quit the Grand Old Party saying he can “best support the larger national cause outside the party”.
  3. Imran Masood: Before the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Masood left the Congress to join the Samajwadi Party.
  4. Aditi Singh: Rebel Congress MLA from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh has joined BJP. The daughter of the late Akhilesh Singh, a five-time MLA, Aditi Singh was critical of the Gandhi family and was suspended from the party’s women’s wing in May last year after she ordered 1,000 buses for stranded migrants in parts of Uttar Pradesh. Slogged his party to make arrangements. covid-19 lockdown.
  5. Luizinho Faleiro: The former Chief Minister of Goa quit the party just before the 2022 state elections. The veteran Congressman, who resigned on Monday and joined the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, hit out at the state leadership and said the party has become “a brutal parody of the Congress”.
  6. Jitin Prasada: Former Union Minister left the party in June 2022 and joined BJP. He criticized the functioning of the party and said that the party is now only an “institutionally national party”. Later he took oath as the cabinet minister of Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath.
  7. RPN Singh: Former Union Minister, close to Rahul Gandhi, left Congress and joined BJP. Singh was Congress’s Jharkhand in-charge, but was reportedly marginalized in the party, which fell out of favor with the Gandhi family.
  8. Jyotiraditya Scindia: Jyotiraditya Scindia was Congress’s Uttar Pradesh in-charge along with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, in which RPN Singh suffered a second consecutive defeat from Kushinagar seat. Jitin Prasada had joined the BJP last year after being sidelined in the Congress party.
  9. PC Chacko: Congress veteran and the party’s Delhi in-charge resigned just ahead of the Kerala Assembly elections last year and joined the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
  10. Amarinder Singh: After months of running with Navjot Singh Sidhu, the then chief of Punjab Congress, former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh left the Congress and founded his own party, the Punjab Lok Congress. The exit of the veteran resulted in the party’s defeat in the Punjab elections.

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