Moments after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in thenational capital on Tuesday, disgruntled Congress leader and former Guna MPJyotiraditya Scindia tendered his resignation to party president Sonia Gandhisaying it was now time for him to move on.
Gandhi immediately expelled him from the Congress foranti-party activities, as the crisis looming over the Congress government inMadhya Pradesh deepened.
“The Congress president has approved the expulsion ofJyotiraditya Scindia from the Indian National Congress with immediate effectfor anti-party activities,” according to a statement from AICC generalsecretary K C Venugopal.
Noting that the events of the day had been drawingthemselves out for a year, Scindia wrote to Gandhi saying that it was now bestfor him to look at a fresh start.
“Having been a primary member of the Congress party forthe last 18 years. It is now time for me to move on. I am rendering myresignation from primary membership of the Congress and as you well know thisis a path that has been drawing itself out over the last year,” Scindiawrote in his letter.