In a fresh setback to the Congress in Haryana, senior leader and six-time MLA Prof Sampat Singh has quit the party, raising questions over its state leadership. Singh, a former Cabinet Minister, said he had “lost faith in the ability of the Congress to represent the interests of the people of Haryana.”

In a letter addressed to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Singh launched a veiled attack on former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda — without naming him — accusing the party’s state leadership of turning a “national party into a regional family enterprise.”

Referring to the nomination of “the son of the Leader” for Rajya Sabha in 2020, instead of a deserving Scheduled or Backward Caste member, Singh wrote that this reflected the capture of the party machinery by a select few. His

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