Senior leader Anil Raja quits Congress alleging leadership issues

GUWAHATI: Senior leader Anil Raja today resigned from the primary membership of All India Congress Committee (AICC) alleging that not everything was hunky dory within the party in Assam.

The senior leader from Nagaon, who was earlier suspended by the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) in November 2019 on charges of anti-party activities, tendered his resignation to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi.

 “…Since last few years, under the present leadership, the Assam Congress is losing its prestige, faithfulness and acceptability in the mind of common people,” he alleged in the resignation letter.

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“For their self interest, they are damaging Indian National Congress Party. Few of them creating groupism and using monopolies to run their Syndicate, which I couldn’t bear,” he added in the resignation letter.

Raja has picked up a war of words with the APCC after he did so with Samaguri MLA and former minister Rakibul Hussain.