A day after its poor performance in the state assembly polls, a head start in the Congress, the party on Friday expelled its electronic media and Urdu press coordinator Zeeshan Haider for allegedly making “derogatory” remarks against the leadership. Gave. “Zeeshan Haider has been removed from all posts and expelled from the party for six years,” said a letter issued by Shyam Kishor Shukla, a member of the disciplinary committee.
After the party’s dismal performance in the elections, Haider had on Thursday held people close to Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi responsible for the poor performance in the media. “It has come to the notice of the party’s disciplinary committee that you have made derogatory remarks against the party leadership through social media and newspapers, which has tarnished the image of the party. Your action comes within the scope of indiscipline.” The letter said. Haider claimed that he had not said anything against Priyanka Gandhi, but blamed a handful of people who had roots in Jawaharlal Nehru University for “misleading her and selling tickets”.
“These people have done nothing at the grassroots level and all the leaders who have left the party in the recent past have done so because of Priyanka ji’s personal assistant and his associates,” he said. “In the recent past 30 former MPs, MLAs and leaders have left the party and each one of them will tell how they left the party because of the same people. Priyanka ji should also know that it is because of these people that the party is today. It is in such a bad condition,” he said. He said he had been expelled for speaking the truth but “I will continue to do so”. He said he was not even given a chance to explain his position on the statement, which is being cited as the reason for his expulsion.
He said the party has forfeited deposits in 380 seats out of 403 seats. Haider said the two leaders resigned on Friday and more would come. In its worst ever performance in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Congress won just two seats and its vote share declined to 2.33 per cent from 6.25 per cent in the 2017 elections, when it won seven seats. Even Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Kumar Lallu suffered a humiliating defeat from Tamkuhi Raj seat in Kushinagar and finished third behind BJP and SP candidates.
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