Says The Great Party Which Brought Independence To India Has Been Reduced To A ‘Mere Self-Serving Family Undertaking’
CHANDIGARH : Ending his 35-year-long association with Congress, Jagmeet Brar, the former member of CWC, on Monday resigned from the party, accusing it of having been reduced to “a mere self-serving family undertaking.”
Although Brar did not state whether he will join any other political outfit after severing ties with Congress, he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his style of functioning.
The former Lok Sabha MP, who was suspended in August last year after he criticised the party’s functioning, further alleged that the party lacked “internal democracy” and was surrounded by “sycophants”, leading to “marginalisation” of regional party leaders.
Addressing media, Brar said he could not tolerate the “humiliation”, caused by his party, stating that in the recent past, there had been a number of “dishonourable sanctions” against him for “speaking out” his mind to uphold the democratic values.
“And I have waited long enough to see them revoked,” he said.
“I cannot tolerate this dishonour anymore, and have decided not to extend the wait for its revocation anymore. I have been asking myself: Who controls the controller in this party,” he said.
“As it seems, the political sincerity in my old political party is understood not in terms of the sincere political action, political service to the nation, but rather the political sincerity is measured by the amount of sycophancy, to which my ethical, moral political will could not be ready all these years,” he said.
Party democracy demands that the people at the grassroots level decided who should lead them, not the so-called high command in Delhi, he said, adding, “In this oligarchic attitude, I miss the democratic credentials which our great leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru had once conferred on this mother of all political parties in India.”
