Punjab Mahila Congress Committee president Balvir Rani Sodhi resigned from her post, citing family circumstances .
\nShe sent her resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday.<\/p>\n
Kindly relieve me from the post as I am unable to continue due to unavoidable compulsions of my family circumstances, Sodhi wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n
However, the Congress leader assured that she will remain loyal to the party.<\/p>\n
The copies of the letter were also sent to party leader Rahul Gandhi and All India Mahila Congress Committee working president Neeta D’Souza.<\/p>\n
Her resignation comes ahead of the launch of the Congress party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ across the country on September 7.<\/p>\n
When asked whether she had any differences with Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Sodhi denied it.<\/p>\n
I have no differences with Raja Warring and have resigned only due to my family compulsions , said the women’s wing chief of the party’s state unit.<\/p>\n
She also brushed aside a query about the possibility of her quitting the party too.<\/p>\n
I am a loyal soldier of the party and will perform any duty assigned to me by the party leadership , she stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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