CR Kesavan, grandson of India's first Indian Governor-General, resigns from Congress party

CR Kesavan, great grandson of India's first Indian Governor-General, C Rajagopalachari, resigned from the Congress party on Thursday. He tweeted his letter of resignation, which was addressed to the Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.

In his resignation letter, Kesavan said he has not seen any 'vestige of the value' that made him work for the party for over two decades. "I can no longer in good conscience say that I concur with what the Party presently symbolises, stands for ..." he wrote in the letter, "This is why I had recently declined an organisational responsibility at the national level and also refrained from participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra," he added.

Speaking to ANI, Kesavan said,''A senior Congress leader demanded proof of the surgical strike, it is disheartening. I realised that my way of doing politics is not in line with the party, so I did not even join 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'. I felt I didn't belong here anymore.''

''When Droupadi Murmu ji's nomination was announced, a senior working committee member of the party said she represents an evil philosophy, another party member said no country should get a President like this,'' he said.

Kesavan, who had been working in the US for several years, had joined Congress in 2000. He told that he was joining the congress 'with the belief that under the leadership of sonia gandhi, the party represents the concern and the interests of Indian people'. He was appointed as a Member of the National Council of the Indian Youth Congress in 2003.

In 2005, he was appointed as the Vice President of the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development [RGNIYD], Sriperumbudur, in the rank of a State Minister. The RGNIYD, in 2014, became an instituition of National Importance. He was actively involved in shaping the country's Youth policy & developing a unique Youth Index.

Kesavan is currently a media-panelist of the Congress party and is actively seen on national television featuring in debates on contemporary issues concerning the people. He is also the Trustee of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee Charitable Trust.

Kesavan has also served as a Member on the Board of Prasar Bharati in the Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.