Resentment against the working style of AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and UP Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu continued with one more senior leader, Vinod Kumar Mishra, who was also convenor of the Brahmin Mahasabha, resigning from the party on Friday citing high-handedness of the top brass.
Mishra, a former general secretary of the UP Congress, was also incharge of Lucknow district during Raj Babbar’s tenure as UP Congress chief.
In his statement soon after quitting the party, he blamed Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for his resignation and alleged that the Gandhi parivar was using the party to save itself from the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate, hence it was insulting veteran leaders and forcing them to leave the party.
“The UP Congress has already been handed over to leftist leaders and now they are managing everything which is unfortunate for the century-old party which was a symbol of the freedom movement of the country,” Mishra said in his statement.
He, however, denied that he would join any other political party and said that he would now onwards devote his entire time on strengthening the Brahmin Mahasabha.
However, sources said that like other Congressmen who joined Aam Aadmi Party soon after they left the Congress recently, Mishra too would shake hands with his colleagues to start his new political innings under Arvind Kejriwal’s leadership.