Achi news desk-
Guwahati: Professor Gaurav Vallabh, the Congress spokesperson who handled the campaign of Congress president Kharj and was an effective voice on economic issues, resigned from the party’s main body on Thursday, joining the BJP just hours later, in the presence of national general secretary Vinod. Tauda.
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Gaurav Vallabh, in his resignation letter, wrote that over the past few years, the Congress party has failed to “realize” the expectations of the “New India”.
Stating that the grand old party was “directionless”, Vallabh, in a letter to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, cited census-like reasons behind his decision to quit, adding that he could not raise “anti-Santana” slogans.
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“I feel uncomfortable considering how the party has become directionless today. I cannot raise ‘anti-Santana’ slogans and abuse the nation’s wealth creators. Therefore, I am resigning from all party positions and primary membership,” his resignation letter read.
he added, "I joined the Congress with the aim of using my knowledge of finance, for the welfare of the country. Yes, we are not in power today, but we could have presented our manifesto, and our policies, in a better way. However, this was not done at the party level.”
Vallabh, who was fielded by the Congress in last year’s Rajasthan assembly elections and in the 2019 Jharkhand assembly polls, further stated that a message is being sent out that the party only works for a ‘certain religion’.
“We are moving in the wrong direction. On the one hand, we are talking about a caste census, and on the other hand, we seem to be completely opposed to Hindu society. This sends a wrong message that we are biased towards a specific community. Also, it goes against the basic principles of the Congress,” stated the accountant, Has a third degree.
Vallabh also wrote that over the past few years, the party has failed to “realise” the expectations of the “New India”.
“We lost our connection at the ground level, so we didn’t understand what the ‘new India’ expected of us. Because of this, we failed again and again to come to power or to become an effective opposition. This demotivates workers like me. No positive change is possible if a worker cannot reach directly to his leader,” he said, adding that the leadership’s decision to skip the Ram temple ceremony “shocked” and “annoyed” him.
