Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique has been removed as the president of the party`s youth wing in Mumbai, days after his father Baba Siddique quit the party and joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, reported the PTI.

According to the PTI, on Tuesday, Indian Youth Congress (IYC) president Srinivas BV issued a statement naming Akhilesh Yadav, who once headed the party`s student wing NSUI in the city, as the new chief of the Mumbai unit of the youth organisation in place of Zeeshan Siddique.