Bringing an end to his four and a half-decade association with the Congress, former Law Minister, Ashwani Kumar, resigned from the party on Tuesday.
In a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Mr. Kumar, a senior leader from Punjab and known to be close to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, claimed that he would best serve larger national interests outside the party-fold and would “proactively pursue public causes inspired by the idea of transformative leadership”.
