A senior Congress leader from Odisha has written to former party president Sonia Gandhi, warning against "a fast-slipping legacy and a leadership distanced from the grassroots" and demanding corrective measures.

Former Barabati-Cuttack MLA Mohammad Moqium, in a five-page letter to Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia, said he tried and was unable to meet Rahul Gandhi for three years.

"A century-old legacy is slipping away--not through electoral defeats, but decisions taken within our own walls. If we don't wake up, we risk losing the Congress we inherited," he wrote, asking for introspection on why the Congress has lost six consecutive Assembly elections in Odisha apart from losing Bihar, Delhi, Haryana and Maharashtra recently.

"The condition of our party, both in Odisha and across

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