Unhappy over MCD poll ticket distribution, another leader quits Congress

Walia claimed that he had worked ‘tirelessly' for the party, and now tickets were been given to ‘outsiders' and no one ‘listens to him'.

Unhappy over Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls ticket distribution, Delhi Congress leader A K Walia quit his party on Monday. Walia has in the past held several portfolios in the Sheila Dixit government. He has served as state minister in Dikshit's government and held health, urban development, land & building portfolios.

He claimed that he had worked 'tirelessly' for the party, and now tickets were been given to 'outsiders' and no one 'listens to him.

Last month, veteran politician and former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna joined the Bharatiya Janata Party after four decades in the Indian National Congress. Krishna was inducted into the party in the presence of BJP president Amit Shah.

"There is hereditary leadership there (In the Congress). We cannot interfere with that, no one can," Krishna when asked about the senior leadership in the Congress. Krishna had resigned from the Congress in January earlier this year.

Last week, former Union minister for Railways and Congress veteran C K Jaffer Sharief stunned many by batting for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat to become President of India.

In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sharief said that there was nothing wrong in considering Bhagwat's name for the post and that as a leader of the minority community, he thought of Bhagwat as a patriot.