Congress drops Sanjay Jha as AICC spokesperson with 'immediate effect'

Congress dropped Sanjay Jha as AICC spokesperson with immediate effect, the party notified through a press release on June 17. No reason was mentioned by the party for taking such action.

The party also approved the appointment of Abhishek Dutt and Sadhna Bharti as national media panelists.

Recently, Jha had penned an open letter in The Times of India suggesting that the party was "hurtling towards political obsolescence".

In the letter, Jha had gone on to say, "The Congress has demonstrated extraordinary lassitude, and its lackadaisical attitude towards its own political obsolescence is baffling."

"I would like to call a spade a spade here and a shovel: there has been no serious effort to get the party up and running with any sense of urgency."

There are many in the party who cannot comprehend this perceptible listlessness. For someone like me, for instance, permanently wedded to Gandhian philosophy and Nehruvian outlook that defines the Congress, it is dismaying to see its painful disintegration," Jha had said.

Lakshmi Ji, I hear you and understand your sentiments. We are both believers in the Congress. We need an organisational renewal, and time is slipping by. Of course there is scattered good work being done, but that will not make us robust, dynamic and successful. That’s my point. https://t.co/ToKBqQa36W

— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) June 11, 2020