Ex-GPCC chief writes to AICC on party's 'discarded leadership'

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Press Trust of India Panaji
Last Updated : Aug 27 2016 | 4:13 PM IST
Former GPCC chief John Fernandes has written to the Congress high command, claiming the party's state leadership has been uniting "corrupt and discarded faces" in run up to Assembly polls next year.
He said if Congress does not rectify its action and continues lobbying with the "discarded people", he will have to re-think about continuing in the party.
"I have written a seven-page-long letter to AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi listing him out how the old, corrupt and discarded faces are being tried to give new lease of life by Congress leader in Goa," Fernandes told PTI today.
He said the party should have clean, young and new faces to bounce back in the 2017 polls.
"If they get same old corrupt faces who worked against the party, then Congress will be ousted on its own, without even BJP needing to do the needful in the elections," said Fernandes, who was Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president (GPCC) during 2013-14.
Fernandes is apparently disturbed with party's plans to re-admit former state Public Works Department Minister, Churchill Alemao into the fold.
Alemao had left Congress after being denied ticket from South Goa constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
In the letter, Fernandes has also stated about the criminal cases pending against current GPCC president Luizinho Faleiro and Leader of Opposition Pratapsinh Rane.

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First Published: Aug 27 2016 | 4:13 PM IST

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