In a jolt to the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Unjha MLA Asha Patel on Saturday resigned from the Assembly as well as from the party membership, citing “infighting” in the party.
Patel submitted her resignation to Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi in Gandhinagar, which has been accepted, sources said.
In a letter to party president Rahul Gandhi, Patel wrote that she has resigned from the party due to “prevalent infighting” and “because the leadership has been ignoring me”.