Former CWC member Jagmeet Brar parts ways with Cong

Ending his 35-year-long association with Congress, Jagmeet Brar, the former member of CWC, today resigned from the party, accusing it of having been reduced to "a mere self-serving family undertaking".

Though Brar did not state whether he will join any other political outfit after severing ties with Congress, yet he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his style of functioning and having raised the drug issue while stating that BJP does not follow dynastic politics.

The former Lok Sabha MP, who was suspended in August last year after he criticised the party's functioning, further, alleged that the party lacked "internal democracy" and was surrounded by "sycophants", leading to "marginalisation" of regional party leaders.

Addressing media here, Brar said he could not tolerate the "humiliation", caused by his party, stating that in the recent past, there had been a number of "dishonourable sanctions" against him for "speaking out" his mind to uphold the democratic values. "And I have waited long enough to see them revoked," he said.

"I cannot tolerate this dishonour anymore, and have decided not to extend the wait for its revocation anymore. I have been asking myself: Who controls the controller in this party," he questioned.

"As it seems, the political sincerity in my old political party is understood not in terms of the sincere political action, political service to the nation, but rather the political sincerity is measured by the amount of sycophancy, to which my ethical, moral political will could not be ready all these years," he said.

Party democracy demands that the people at the grassroots level decided who should lead them, not the so-called high command in Delhi, he said, adding, "In this oligarchic attitude I miss the democratic credentials which our great leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru had once conferred on this mother of all political parties in India."

"In the meantime, this great party that had once brought independence to our great nation has been reduced to a mere "self-serving family undertaking", which shares the party functioning, at the maximum, with a small number of party oligarchs, which envelop and insulate it from a common dialogue ultra-necessary for the democratic functioning of any political party," he alleged.

Brar said, "with a brief note to the Congress President (Sonia Gandhi) on December 23, I have tendered my resignation from the primary membership of the All India Congress Committee, breaking all connections whatsoever with it.

"With that I have ended a long era spanning 35 years of my dedicated, selfless and honest allegiance to, as I said, this mother of all political parties in India, the Congress..." he said.