Hours after 'goodbye' post, former minister says won't quit Congress
Bharatpur, Oct. 3 -- Former Rajasthan minister Vishvendra Singh on Friday said he had bid "goodbye" to the Congress but clarified that he had not resigned, days after his public confrontation with state Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra and the Bharatpur and Deeg district leadership over the party's performance in the recent urban local body elections.
"I have not resigned from the Congress party. I will remain with the party," Singh told HT, adding that some senior Congress leaders had spoken to him over the matter.
Singh's clarification came after he announced through a social media post on Friday that he considered it better to bid farewell to the Congress and could no longer go along with "wrong policies". Singh said in the post that the statements by some "petty and so-called leaders" had angered his supporters and left him hurt.
"If speaking the truth and not supporting what is wrong and false are sins, I will commit one every time. I neither do wrong nor tolerate wrong," he said.
Singh, a member of the erstwhile Bharatpur royal family, has been active in electoral politics for nearly four decades and has had different political affiliations during his career.
He was appointed as cabinet minister in the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in 2018.
Singh was removed from the state cabinet in 2020 during the political crisis triggered by then deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot's rebellion and the subsequent Manesar episode.
He contested the 2023 Assembly election from Deeg-Kumher but lost.
On Wednesday, he launched a sharp attack on Dotasra and the Congress district presidents of Deeg and Bharatpur. He named Rajeev Singh, Deeg district Congress president, and Dinesh Soopa, Bharatpur district Congress president, and accused them of ignoring party workers during ticket distribution.
He claimed that the Congress had suffered electorally because of the functioning of the two district presidents and alleged that Dotasra had failed to act despite being aware of the situation.
"The people have taught the Congress a lesson in the recent civic body elections," Singh said in a social media post....
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