Three days after the stormy meeting of the Congress Working Committee over the issue of “letter bomb”, the signatories of the letter are now facing the wrath of their own colleagues in the party. The Lakhimpur Kheri District Congress Committee in Uttar Pradesh has passed a resolution against former Union minister and prominent Congress leader Jitin Prasada and demanded his expulsion from the party.
“The District Congress Committee (DCC) demands that disciplinary action should be taken against all those who signed the letter and they should be expelled from the party,” stated the resolution which was passed on Wednesday. Prasada is one of the signatories of the letter which was written by 23 Congress leaders seeking organisational changes in the party. This resolution, which was addressed to party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi, has singled out Jitin Prasada, who is the party’s Brahmin face in the state.
“Jitin Prasada is the only person from Uttar Pradesh to have signed the letter. His family history has been against the Gandhi family and his father Jitendra Prasad proved it by fighting elections against Sonia Gandhi. Despite this, Sonia Gandhi gave Jitin Prasada a Lok Sabha ticket and made him a minister. What he has done is gross indiscipline and the District Congress committee wants strict action against him and condemns his actions,” said the resolution.
However, this move didn’t go down well with senior party leaders including Kapil Sibal who termed the resolution unfortunate on Twitter.