Chhabra quits Cong, lashes out at Bansal
Sandeep Rana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 6
A day after the city Congress decided to serve a show-cause notice on him, former city unit president Pradeep Chhabra today resigned from the primary membership of the party.
“An upright man shall never tolerate indignation and lies. Knowing when to walk away is wisdom, being able to is courage, walking away with your head held high is dignity. I resign from the primary membership of the Congress. An official, detailed resignation will follow,” the former Mayor posted on Twitter in the morning.
In his resignation letter to national party president Sonia Gandhi, he levelled several allegations against former MP Pawan Kumar Bansal.
“…I was being treated as a puppet, who was controlled by Bansal…after 2013, the party has gone into a coma. No other party worker but only Bansal is responsible for the electoral loss here…he has been running the party like a private company and obliging only people close to him,” he alleged.
On reasons behind the tussle, he alleged, “In 2020, I had started a rasoi with the slogan, “Congress ki rasoi, bhukha soye na koi”, for helping people
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