Sunil Jakhar quits Congress after telling his "Dil ki Baat"

Ex Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar quit the party on Saturday. He announced his resignation from the party in a Facebook Live post- titled 'Mann ki Baat', he bid adieu to the party thus: “Goodbye and Goodluck Congress”. Jakhar said he was heartbroken at being removed from all party posts by the Congress disciplinary committee following allegations of anti-party activities against him by certain Punjab unit leaders.He also blamed Congress MP Ambika Soni’s statement on the “repercussions of having a Hindu chief minister in Punjab” for the party’s drubbing in the state assembly polls earlier this year. His comments today underlined how much work the Congress must do to put its house in order and emerge as a serious challenger to the BJP - both in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh polls due later this year and next year's general election.

Jakhar's bombshell announcement comes as the Congress enters the second day of its Chintan Shivir meet in Rajasthan - a three-day meeting of senior leaders to review the party's disastrous results in five state elections held in February-March and plot a recovery ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.On Rahul Gandhi, Jakhar praised the former Congress president as a “good person” and appealed to him to once again take command of the party while keeping a distance from “chaploos log” (sycophants).