New Delhi: Days after national spokesperson of grand old Congress party, Sanjay Jha wrote critical about the party in a newspaper article, its president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday, removed Jha from spokesperson post.
Instead, Gandhi appointed ABhishek Dutt and Sadhna Bharti as natioanl media panelists for the Congress.
“Congress president has also approved that Sanjay Jha be dropped as AICC spokesperson with immediate effect,” the party said in an official statement.
In the article published a few days ago, Mr Jha had said, “The Congress has demonstrated extraordinary lassitude, and its lackadaisical attitude towards its own political obsolescence is baffling…”
“I would like to call a spade a spade here and a shovel: there has been no serious effort to get the party up and running with any sense of urgency,” he had said in the article in a national newspaper.
Responding to the party’s action against Jha, he said, “Pandit Nehru once wrote a self-critical piece anonymously in a newspaper warning against becoming autocratic. That is the true Congress;democratic, liberal, tolerant, inclusive. We have drifted far from those values. Why? I remain a committed fearless ideological soldier of INC.”
Pandit Nehru once wrote a self-critical piece anonymously in a newspaper warning against becoming autocratic. That is the true Congress;democratic, liberal, tolerant, inclusive. We have drifted far from those values. Why?
I remain a committed fearless ideological soldier of INC.
— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) June 18, 2020
