New Delhi: The Congress on Monday expelled former Odisha MLA Mohammed Mokin, lower than per week after he wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi warning that “flawed choices and flawed management selections” had been weakening the get together. The MLA’s letter additionally steered that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will play an vital central position.
“We want to inform all involved that the AICC (All India Congress Committee) has authorised the proposal to expel Sri Mokin from the get together’s core membership on grounds of anti-party actions,” the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee stated in an announcement.
After his ouster, Mokin instructed reporters that he didn’t remorse writing the letter to Sonia Gandhi. “They’ve expelled me from the get together, however they can not distance me from the Congress ideology, which I observe in letter and spirit,” he stated.
In a letter to Sonia Gandhi, Mokim, who wrested the Barabati Cuttack meeting constituency from the ruling BJD in 2019, requested Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to play a central position in get together politics, mentioning that she had not met Rahul Gandhi for about three years regardless of being an MLA.
“Madam, with the utmost humility, I strongly consider that the nation, particularly the youth, is ready for Shri Priyanka Gandhi to play a central, seen and lively management position.Particularly, Shri Sachin Pilot, Shri DK Shivakumar, It’s equally vital that leaders like Shri A. Revanth Reddy and Dr. Shashi Tharoor kind the core management of the get together going ahead, as they’ve the credibility, vitality and connections wanted to encourage and mobilize younger Indians,” he wrote.
In 2024, Mokim’s daughter Sophia Firdous gained the Barabati Cuttack seat, changing into one of many 14 elected members of the Meeting and the primary Muslim girl to be elected to the Odisha Meeting. Mokim couldn’t contest the case as a result of he was convicted in a mortgage fraud case.
Mokin, founder and managing director of Metro Group, a outstanding actual property firm in Odisha, was scathing in his criticism of OPCC Chairman Bhakta Charan Das, who took over in February 2025, saying he can’t even “guarantee the arrogance of his personal constituency”.
By the way, Mr. Firdous has emerged as a outstanding political face in Odisha as a consequence of his capacity to actively intervene throughout parliamentary classes and articulate the get together’s stand on numerous points.
In his five-page letter, Mokim stated the Congress wanted a whole structural, organizational and ideological makeover, with out which “we threat dropping our relevance and fading into historical past. That might be a tragedy not only for the get together however for the very thought of India.”
He highlighted the “deepening disconnect” between the get together and India’s youth.
“With all due respect, below the present management type, the get together can’t resonate with the youth of India, particularly provided that Shri Mallikarjun Khargeji is 83 years previous,” Mokim wrote, additionally sending copies of the letter to Khargeji and Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Mokim wrote that the plight of the Congress has turn into alarming and insupportable, but the get together is repeating its errors moderately than correcting them.
“Odisha is going through six consecutive losses and on the nationwide stage we have now endured three main setbacks in fast succession in current instances. Our presence geographically, organizationally and emotionally is shrinking – Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra and Kashmir. “The current outcomes mirror not solely an electoral setback, but in addition a deeper organizational disconnect. Unhealthy choices, the flawed selection of management, and the continued focus of duty within the flawed arms are weakening the get together from inside,” he added.
(Edited by Vinny Mishra)
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