‘Rebel’ Himachal Congress leader Rajinder Rana resigns as HPCC working president after party removes Sudhir Sharma from AICC
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TNR Desk
Less than an hour after the Congress sacked its disqualified MLA from Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh Sudhir Sharma as secretary of the party’s top decision-making body All-India Congress Committee (AICC), another rebel MLA, Rajinder Rana, himself resigned as the working president of the state unit.
“I do hereby resign from the post of working president of HPCC with immediate effect,” wrote Rana, disqualified Congress MLA from Sujanpur in Hamirpur district, in his letter posted on Facebook and other social media handles.
Rana addressed the letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge as well as party’s state chief Pratibha Singh, state in-charge Rajeev Shukla and AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal.
Both Sudhir and Rana have been leading the rebellion against Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and the party high command, regularly putting out counter posts on social media. Sudhir and Rana have been disgruntled ever since they were left out of the cabinet despite both being initially sounded on their inclusion in the council of ministers and called to Shimla for the swearing-in ceremony.
Prior to his expulsion from the post of AICC secretary, Sudhir had put out a lengthy post on Facebook criticising CM Sukhu and how the party high command chose to turn a blind eye to his “humiliation”. After being removed from the AICC, he again put out a message on Facebook in Hindi:
“Bhar mukt to aise kiya hai jaise sara bojh mere hi kandhon par tha;
Chinta miti, Chahat gayi, manwa beparwah, jisko kachu nahin chahiye, wo bhi beparwah” (I have been relieved from the post as if I had been assigned too much of responsibilities; anyways, I am totally a free bird now, no strings attached)”.
