Gourav Vallabh resigns from Congress, says can't raise anti-Sanatan slogans

Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh resigned from all posts and membership of the party on Thursday saying that neither can he raise antiSanatan slogans nor abuse wealth creators day in and day outVallabh shared his resignation letter written to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on social media platform XHe said he was not feeling comfortable with the directionless way in which the party was moving forwardGourav Vallabh resigns from Congress I can neither raise antiSanatana slogans nor abuse the wealth creators of the countryI do not feel comfortable with the directionless way in which the Congress party is moving forward today I can neither raise antiSanatana slogans nor abuse the wealth creators of the country I am resigning from all posts and primary membership of the Congress party Vallabh saidHe further alleged that the Congress party is moving in the wrong direction against the basic principle of the partyThese days the party is moving in the wrong direction On one hand we talk about the castebased census and on the other hand the party seems to oppose the entire Hindu society This style of working gives a misleading message to the public that the party is a supporter of a particular religion only This is against the basic principles of Congress he said pictwittercomXp9nFO80I6mdash Prof Gourav Vallabh GouravVallabh April 4 2024He also alleged that Congresss stand on economic matters has always been to humiliate and abuse the wealth creators of the countryGourav Vallabh resigns from Congress Is it wrong to earn money by doing business in our countryToday we have turned against those economic liberalisation privatisation and globalisation LPG policies for which the world has given us full credit for implementing in the country Is it wrong to earn money by doing business in our country the leader saidSir when I joined the party my only aim was to use my ability and capability in economic matters in the interest of the country We may not be in power but we could have presented the partys economic policymaking in the national interest in a better way in our manifesto and elsewhere But this effort was not made at the party level which is no less than a suffocation for a person with knowledgeable about economic matters like me he addedHe also said that he was upset with the stance taken by the party of staying away from the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha programme in AyodhyaGourav Vallabh contested the Rajasthan assembly election from Udaipur constituency in 2023However the BJP candidate secured a comfortable win with a margin of over 32000 votesVallabh had made his poll debut in 2019 from Jharkhands Jamshedpur East where he bagged over 18000 and ended up in third spot behind thensitting chief minister Raghubar Das and Saryu RoyWith inputs from Agencies