New Delhi:

Senior Congress chief Anand Sharma on Sunday mentioned he was resigning as chief of the “steering committee” of the social gathering’s Himachal Pradesh unit, days after the same transfer in Jammu and Kashmir, led by veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad.

In a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi forward of meeting elections in Himachal Pradesh, Mr Sharma mentioned that he felt omitted of the social gathering’s selections forward of the polls and that his self-respect is “non-negotiable”, sources mentioned.

“Reiterating that I’m a lifelong congressman and stay agency on my convictions… given the persevering with exclusion and insults, as a self-respecting particular person – I used to be left with no alternative,” he wrote on Twitter.

Dedicated to Congress ideology that runs in my blood, let there be no doubts about this! Nonetheless, given the persevering with exclusion and insults, as a self-respecting person- I used to be left with no alternative. 2/2

— Anand Sharma (@AnandSharmaINC) August 21, 2022

Mr Azad, one other member of the group of Congress dissidents dubbed the “G-23”, had resigned as chairman of the marketing campaign committee in addition to the political affairs panel in Jammu and Kashmir a couple of days in the past.

Mr Sharma has instructed the Congress chief that he has been ignored within the session course of for the elections. Nonetheless, he instructed her that he’ll proceed to marketing campaign for the social gathering candidates within the state.

The previous union minister and deputy chief of the Congress in Rajya Sabha was appointed chairman of the social gathering’s “steering committee” in Himachal Pradesh on April 26.

Each Mr Azad and Mr Sharma are distinguished leaders of the G-23 grouping, which has been essential of the selections of the social gathering management and has referred to as for a radical overhaul to revive the social gathering’s flagging fortunes.

The grouping comprising distinguished veterans together with Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Manish Tewari has been insisting on real elections proper from the block as much as the social gathering’s high decision-making physique, the Congress Working Committee.

Mr Sharma, who is taken into account among the many tallest leaders of the social gathering from Himachal Pradesh, instructed the Congress president in his letter that his self-respect has been harm as he has not been consulted or invited to any of the conferences of the social gathering.

The Congress hopes to take unseat the BJP within the Himachal Pradesh meeting polls slated later this yr, which Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) has made a three-way contest for the primary time in a few years.

Mr Sharma, who first contested meeting elections in 1982 and was given a Rajya Sabha ticket by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, has been a Rajya Sabha member since and has held a number of key positions within the social gathering.