NEW DELHI: The Indian Youth Congress has suspended some 200 members in a sweeping disciplinary crackdown for not attending the Opposition bloc INDIA’s rally in the national capital recently.
Suspension letters seen by NDTV indicated at least 185 members across seven states have been suspended so far and told to explain their absence. The disciplinary review could eventually see that figure rise to 500, sources said.
However, some of the suspended Youth Congress members have expressed surprise and shock over how the party has judged them over one event despite giving many years of their lives in its service.
“We faced FIRs and went to jail for the party. Are we being removed just for missing one event?” Rohit Rajoria, a general secretary of the Youth Congress, said after the outfit removed him from his post without giving him a chance to give an explanation.
Rajoria said the Congress party’s youth wing has been behaving in an arbitrary manner despite his 15 years of service, during which he was named in 15 FIRs and jailed three-four times for participating in protests organised by the party.
He showed a card that asked people for their presence on the tervi or the 13th-day remembrance of his late uncle. He said he had told the party leadership well in advance about the bereavement and his inability to travel to Delhi for Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s rally at Ramlila Maidan on November 1.
Handed the summary removal after missing a single event, Rajoria has questioned how the party expected to return to power under such circumstances.
The maximum action by the Youth Congress has been taken in Madhya Pradesh, where 60 members have been suspended, followed by 49 in Gujarat and 26 in West Bengal. It has also suspended 14 members in Telangana, 13 in central Uttar Pradesh, 13 in Congress-ruled Himachal Pradesh and 10 in Haryana.
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