Senior Congress leader PC Chacko quits Congress, alleges groupism

Senior Congress leader PC Chacko quit Congress and sent his resignation to party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday, reported ANI.

He told ANI, “I’d been deliberating upon this decision for past many days. I come from Kerala where there’s no Congress party as such. There are 2 parties – Congress (I) & Congress (A). It’s coordination committee of two parties functioning as KPCC.”

The senior Congress leader added, “Kerala is facing a crucial election. People want Congress to come back but there’s groupism practiced by top leaders of Congress. I’ve been arguing with high command that this should be ended. But the high command is also agreeing to the proposal given by both groups.”

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He said that it was a prestigious thing to be a Congress man but “today in Kerala nobody can be a Congress man. One can belong to either ‘I group’ or ‘A group’. So I decided to call it a day.”

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The senior Congress leader accused the high command of not intervening and witnessing a disaster before the Kerala assembly elections, which are scheduled to be held on April 6.