The Congress suffered a major setback on Friday with one of its staunch spokespersons,  Priyanka Chaturvedi, quitting the party. She has tendered her resignation letter to the party president Rahul Gandhi. Besides, she has also changed her bio on the microblogging site, Twitter, from 'Congress party spokesperson' to 'Columnist. Blogger. Saree Hoarder. Mother.' This comes a day after she expressed her unhappiness over the party's decision to take back some of its old timers who were expelled for misbehaving with her in Mathura a few days ago. The action of revoking the suspension, party leaders claimed, was taken on the recommendations of Congress general secretary for West Uttar Pradesh Jyotiraditya Scindia.

In her resignation letter to Rahul Gandhi, she wrote: "misbehaviour against me  by certain party members has been ignored under the guise of all hands needed for elections...this indignity is the final factor to convince me to move on & focus on other things outside INC."

Sanjay Raut said that Chaturvedi is joining Shiv Sena. It is inflicting even more embarrassment to the Congress in middle of Lok Sabha elections.