New Delhi: After sacking Margaret Alva from top party posts, Congress today cracked the whip on Yogendra Makwana, who had demanded a probe into her charges that tickets were up for sale, by removing him as the head of the party's scheduled castes department for "gross indiscipline".
The axe fell on the 75-year-old dalit leader from Gujarat for "publicly criticising the policies and functioning of the party for quite a long time".
A defiant Makwana, however, said that he was not bothered by the disciplinary action.
Indicating that he would be parting ways with the Congress this week, he accused the Congress-led Government at the Centre of doing little for Dalits and tribals.
The former Union Minister had incurred the wrath of the high command for quite some time and his statement demanding a probe into the charges of Alva that tickets for Karnatka Assembly election were sold, appeared to be the last straw.
"Makwana has been publicly criticising the policies and functioning of the party for quite a long time amounting to gross indiscipline," AICC General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said.
"Party has taken a serious view of his conduct and consequently the Congress President has relieved him from the Chairmanship of the SC Department of the AICC with immediate effect", he said.
The action against Makwana came a day after Alva's resignation as AICC General Secretary was accepted. Alva's charges had created a row and main opposition BJP even dubbed it as a "cash-for-tickets" scam to embarrass the ruling party.
She was also sacked as a member of the Congress Working Committee and Central Election Committee.
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