Sajjan Kumar quits Congress

Hyderabad, December 18: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has written to party president Rahul Gandhi submitting his resignation from the primary membership of the party, sources in the party said here on Tuesday.

We all knew that, Yesterday, The Delhi High Court convicted Sajjan Kumar for a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and sentenced him to imprisonment for life.

"I tender my resignation with immediate effect from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress in the wake of the judgement of the hon be high court of Delhi against me," Sajjan Kumar said in the letter to Rahul Gandhi.

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal welcomed the court s verdict today. "I welcome court s decision against Sajjan Kumar. At last after 34 years, the Sikh community got some justice. I hope other big leaders involved in this will also be punished and similarly, perpetrators behind the 2002 Gujarat riots and Muzaffarnagar riots also get punished," said Kejriwal.