: Former law minister Ashwani Kumar quits Congress, says party does not reflect national mood #IndiaNEWS Veteran Congress leader and former law minister Ashwani Kumar resigned from the party on Tuesday.In

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Former law minister Ashwani Kumar quits Congress, says party does not reflect national mood #IndiaNEWS
Veteran Congress leader and former law minister Ashwani Kumar resigned from the party on Tuesday.In his resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Kumar said that he can best serve national causes outside the party fold.“I am accordingly quitting the party after a long association of 46 years,â€? the former Rajya Sabha MP wrote in the letter.Former Law Minister Ashwini Kumar quits Congress. pic.twitter.com/bDNTCgfjlZ— Vikas Bhadauria (@vikasbha) February 15, 2022 Kumar’s resignation came in the midst of Assembly polls in five states, including his home state Punjab, which goes to poll on February 20.Kumar, said to be a staunch loyalist of Sonia Gandhi, had joined the party in 1976 as a joint secretary of Punjab’s Gurdaspur district Congress committee, The Indian Express reported. He was the law minister from October 2012 to May 2013 in the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance government.In an interview with The Indian Express soon after his resignation, Kumar said that the “continuous declineâ€? of the Congress in terms of vote percentage and public support reflects that the party was out of sync with the way the country thinks.“It is the function of a political party to both gauge the national mood and where necessary to transform it,â€? Kumar told The Indian Express. “Can anybody seriously or honestly deny that this has...Read more

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