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Chhabildas Mehta resigns from Cong

Mehta faxed his resignation letter to party president Sonia Gandhi.

Mehta said, ''I do not want to say much about the approach of the Congress party, but due to the Centre's policy of globalisation and liberalisation, lakhs of small and medium units were forced to close down and crores of people have become unemployed.''

Mehta said there was no proper forum to hear the grievances of the public at large.

There were so many factions and each was working according to its whims and fancies, he added.

''Due to this, the Congress was thrown out from power and now the party cannot come to power on its own in future,'' he said.

''Over and above, majority of the parties are against Sonia Gandhi,'' his statement said.

Mehta said, ''Groupism in the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee had come to such an extent, that prominent Congress leader Sanat Mehta was forced to go out of the party. Madhavsinh Solanki, who was very experienced, has been neglected and C D Patel, who brought the state Congress out from the debris, his position was made unbearable.''

Mehta said, ''We joined the Congress under the leadership of the late Chimanbhai Patel, but our Delhi leaders made the situation such that they tried to push out one by one those who sided with the late Patel.''

He said a year back, he had requested Sonia Gandhi to invite all like-minded parties to oust communal forces, ''but his letter was considered at the All India Congress Committee as an act of indiscipline and against Sonia individually. Today, after a year, the Congress has agreed to toe such a line, but now it is too late for the party.''

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