New Delhi: Congress party sacked AICC’s spokesperson Sanjay Jha on Wednesday, days after he criticized the party in a column in a newspaper. The AICC also appointed two more official spokespersons in the media panel.

This is a time for great mature political consensus within India in responding to China’s dangerous aggression. I don’t care if Modi made several outrageous rhetorical comments against our Congress/ UPA Government in the past, he said in a Twitter. We must rise. Let’s be different. Let’s be one.

The decision to drop Jha clearly appears to be a disciplinary action inview of his critical comments in which he accused Congress of being rudderless during the Covid- 19 pandemic and of not filling the vaccum created by the inept handling of the pandemic by the Modi Government. He had also lamented that Congress lacked any internal mechanism to address the complaints or consider the suggestions of the Congress members.

The Congress appointed local MCD Councilor from New Delhi Abhisekh Dutt and Sadhana Bharati as media panelists who will appear on television debates to put forth the party view.