Left with no choice due to exclusion, insults: Anand Sharma after quitting Cong

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma who quit as the chief of the party panel for the upcoming Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections on Sunday said that he had no choice but to resign due to continuous insults and exclusion while asserting he will remain a committed party memberI have resigned with a heavy heart from the Chairmanship of the Steering Committee of the Congress for the Himachal Elections Reiterating that I am a lifelong congressman and remain firm on my convictionsI have resigned with a heavy heart from the Chairmanship of the Steering Committee of the Congress for the Himachal Elections Reiterating that I am a lifelong congressman and remain firm on my convictions 12mdash Anand Sharma AnandSharmaINC August 21 2022Committed to Congress ideology that runs in my blood let there be no doubts about this However given the continuing exclusion and insults as a selfrespecting person I was left with no choice he said in a series of tweetsAlso read Selfrespect is nonnegotiable Congress leader Anand SharmaSources close to Sharma said he has sent his letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi after being sidelined from the working of the party unit in the stateRajeev Shukla the partys state incharge has not commented on the issue and Congress sources said they did not know about the developmentSharmas resignation comes in wake of Ghulam Nabi Azad quitting as the partys JampK campaign committee headAlong with Azad Sharma is also among the prominent leaders of the G23 group which has demanded sweeping reforms in the partyThe Congress President had on April 26 appointed the Himachal Pradesh state Congress chief the CLP leader and Chairman of Campaign Committee The party had also announced eight other committees including a Steering Committee with Sharma as Chairman and Asha Kumari as the convenorAccording to sources close to Sharmas office his letter said that the multiplicity of committees and overlapping of functions required clarity for functional purposes and he had requested the General Secretary Organisation and the state incharge to clarify the mandate and role of the Steering CommitteeThe letter noted that meetings of state units core group and senior leaders on election strategy and preparations had been held both in Delhi and Shimla including a meeting of the state unit chief the head of the Campaign Committee and other committees on June 20 and in early August the state incharge and central AICC observers visited Shimla for various meetings However Sharma as Chairman of the Steering Committee was neither informed nor invited for any of these meetings it saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever