New Delhi: Mere hours after Prof Gourav Vallabh resigned from the Congress Thursday, the previous spokesperson for the occasion joined the BJP in Delhi.
He had earlier stop the Congress citing disagreement over the occasion’s view on the Ram temple consecration, its silence on “people speaking against Sanatana (Dharma)” and its stand in opposition to wealth creators, amongst different causes.
In a letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Thursday, Vallabh, a former professor at Jamshedpur’s XLRI-Xavier College of Administration, wrote that the occasion “is not able to adjust itself with the youth with new ideas”.
“The ground-level connect of the party has been completely broken, which is not able to understand the aspirations of a new India at all. Due to which neither the party is able to come to power nor it is able to play the role of a strong opposition.”.
Throughout the occasion, it’s troublesome to “bridge the gap between big leaders and grassroots workers”, his letter, written in Hindi and posted on X, stated.
कांग्रेस पार्टी आज जिस प्रकार से दिशाहीन होकर आगे बढ़ रही है,उसमें मैं ख़ुद को सहज महसूस नहीं कर पा रहा.मैं ना तो सनातन विरोधी नारे लगा सकता हूं और ना ही सुबह-शाम देश के वेल्थ क्रिएटर्स को गाली दे सकता.इसलिए मैं कांग्रेस पार्टी के सभी पदों व प्राथमिक सदस्यता से इस्तीफ़ा दे रहाहूं pic.twitter.com/Xp9nFO80I6
— Prof. Gourav Vallabh (@GouravVallabh) April 4, 2024
“Unless a worker can give direct suggestions to his leader, no positive change is possible,” the letter learn.
Vallabh got here into the limelight in 2019 after his debate with BJP chief Sambit Patra on the ‘100 days of Modi 2.0’ aired on a Hindi channel. At the moment, he posed a easy query to Patra: “Just how many zeroes are there in a trillion?”
This was after Patra flexed the Narendra Modi authorities’s ambitions to make the nation a $5 trillion economic system by 2024. After insisting that Patra reply his question, Vallabh went on to elucidate {that a} trillion has 12 zeroes, earlier than happening so as to add that 10^9 is a billion and 10^6 is one million.
Vallabh was appointed the occasion spokesperson in early 2019, months after he joined the occasion. He has a doctorate in credit score danger evaluation.
Vallabh has beforehand been related to the Reserve Financial institution of India and the Punjab Nationwide Financial institution and has been the director of the CA Institute in Delhi.
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‘Uncomfortable and troubled’
In his letter, Vallabh wrote that he was feeling “uncomfortable” with the occasion’s stand on varied points. Amongst these have been its views on Sanatana Dharma and financial points.
“Many people associated with the party and the alliance speak against Sanatan (sic), and the party’s silence on it is like giving tacit approval to it,” Vallabh, who has prior to now claimed to be strongly non secular, stated, including that concepts of faith “are intensely personal and not for public consumption”.
Concerning the Ram temple consecration, he wrote that he was “upset” with the Congress occasion’s stance. “I am a Hindu by birth and a teacher by profession. This stand of the party has always made me uncomfortable and troubled.”
He was additionally important of what he noticed because the Congress’s stance in opposition to “wealth creators”.
“At present, Congress’s stand on economic matters has always been to humiliate and abuse the wealth creators of the country. Today we have turned against those economic liberalization, privatization, and globalization (LPG) policies for which the world has given us full credit for implementing in the country,” he wrote, including that the occasion’s view on each disinvestment going down within the nation was “always negative”.
His intention when he joined the occasion in 2018 was to make use of his “ability and capability in economic matters in the interest of the country”, he stated.
“We may not be in power, but we could have presented the party’s economic policy-making in the national interest in a better way in our manifesto and elsewhere. But this effort was not made at the party level, which is no less than a suffocation for a person knowledgeable about economic matters like me,” he stated.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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