Kapil Sibal quits Congress, files nomination for RS elections with SP support

25 May 2022 Evaluate

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said that he has resigned the Congress Party and filed nomination for the Rajya Sabha (RS) as an independent candidate from Uttar Pradesh (UP) with the support of the Samajwadi Party (SP).

Kapil Sibal, who filed the papers in Lucknow in the presence of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Ram Gopal Yadav and other senior leaders at the party headquarters in UP. ‘It is important to be an independent voice in parliament. If an independent voice speaks up then people will believe it is not from any political party’ he said. Kapil Sibal, one of the senior-most leaders in the Congress and a prominent member of the G23, which had sought an organisational overhaul in the Congress.

Sibal's resignation comes close after Sunil Jakhar and Hardik Patel resigning from the Congress. The RS elections will be held on June 10 and the results will be declared later on the same day.


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