New Delhi:
Professor Gourav Vallabh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party hours after resigning from all posts and membership of the Congress party on Thursday. Citing reasons for his exit, he said that he can “neither raise anti-Sanatan slogans nor abuse weather creators” everyday.
Vallabh shared the resignation letter he wrote to Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge on the microblogging site X. “I am not able to feel comfortable with the directionless way in which the Congress Party is moving forward today,” he said in his post.
Vallabh further wrote, “I can neither raise anti-Sanatan slogans nor abuse the wealth creators of the country in the morning and evening. That is why I I am resigning from all posts and primary membership of Congress Party.
Vallabh, who served as a spokesperson of the grand old party, had not been attending television programs on behalf of them for several months and had not held any press conference for a long time.
His resignation letter read, “When I joined Congress, I believed that Congress is the oldest party in the country which respects youth and intellectual people and their ideas. But for some time, I felt that the party was not able to adjust with the youth having new ideas.”
Vallabh claimed the Congress is completely cut off from the ground and is unable to understand the aspirations of a new India. This has held the party back from coming to power and playing the role of a strong opposition.
The former Congress leader and finance professor also said that he was upset with the stance the grand old party took by not attending the pran pratishtha ceremony of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.
Reacting to Vallabh’s resignation, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said, “”I have told this 7 years ago that Congress is not a party but a family company. There is no concern of national and social interest but only the interest of a family… Be it the Indian army or the Hindu society of the country, the Congress party always disrespects them.”
Poonawalla said that those who opposed his views seven years ago were now agreeing with him. “Congress party is anti-youth. No efficient youth leader can stay there… They consider family first and not the nation,” the BJP leader added.
