Congress J-K spokesperson Deepika Pushkar Nath on Tuesday said that she is resigning after former Member of Parliament (MP) Chowdhary Lal Singh asserted that he will be joining the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Jammu and Kashmir.
“In view of Ch.Lal Singh’s proposal of joining @bharatjodo & @INCJammuKashmir allowing the same, I am left with no other option but to resign from @INCIndia,” she said in a tweet.
She further added that Singh was responsible in sabotaging the Kathua rape case in 2018 by brazenly defending rapists. “Lal Singh divided the entire region of Jammu & Kashmir to protect the rapists and @bharatjodo is ideologically opposite. On ideological grounds, I cannot share the party platform with such a person,” Deepika tweeted.
Earlier, The Kashmir Walla has reported that there has been a rift within the Congress party due to Singh joining the Yatra.
Singh became a center of controversy after he publicly supported the accused in the infamous Kathua rape-murder case of an 8-year-old girl from a tribal community in 2018.
In a statement, Singh said he has got an invitation to join the Yatra and his conscience forces him to join the rally to fight against the government to “get justice for common man”.
“If someone is uniting the Bharat, then there is no harm in supporting him. We need to unite anyway for our rights,” Singh said.
