Former Haryana minister Sampat Singh resigns from congress

CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana finance minister ‘professor' Sampat Singh has resigned from the Indian National Congress (INC).

The six-time MLA sent his resignation to party president Mallikarjun Kharge. While not naming former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda directly, Sampat Singh has asserted that the state Congress operates where "loyalty is rewarded with servitude, and dissent is punished with expulsion".

A long-time vocal critic of Hooda's leadership, Saampat Singh was a key figure in the Kumari Selja faction and earlier opposed Hooda's appointment as state's leader of the opposition.

In his resignation, he levelled serious accusations against the party's state leadership. He charged that the Haryana Congress had devolved into "a private limited company run by one family", where internal democracy has eroded.

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