Capt Ajay Yadav quits Congress, alleges shabby treatment 

Former Haryana minister and Congress OBC cell chairman Capt Ajay Singh Yadav on Thursday resigned from his position as well as primary membership of the party.

Ending seven-decade-old ties of his family with the Congress, Yadav said he was resigning over the shabby treatment meted out to him after Sonia Gandhi left the post of party president.

"I have sent my resignation letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge ji from Chairman AICC OBC Department and also from primary membership of Indian national congress party @kharge @RahulGandhi @SoniaGandhiiINC," Yadav announced on X.

He said the decision of resigning was a hard one.

"It was not easy to part from a party with whom my family had 70 years of association. My father late Rao Abhey Singh became MLA in 1952 and thereafter I continued with family tradition but am disillusioned with the party high command for treating me shabbily after Sonia Gandhi left the post of Congress president," said Yadav.

The resignation follows the crushing defeat Yadav's son Chiranjeev, son-in-law of RJD supremo Lalu Yadav, suffered at the hands of BJP's Laxman Singh in Rewari.

Ajay Yadav has represented Rewari five times in the Haryana assembly.

Lalu's son Tej Pratap had campaigned for Chiranjeev in the segment but the latter lost by over 28,000 votes.

Yadav's resignation is a setback to the Congress especially because he headed the OBC cell.

The BJP on the contrary today ensured that Nayab Saini, its OBC leader and outgoing CM, again took oath of office as chief minister.

Haryana Congress veterans, including Yadav and Kumari Selja, a tall SC leader, have long complained of over-dominance of former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a Jat stalwart, in state politics.