A Day After Tonsure Protest, Lathika Subhash Resigns from Congress, to Contest as Independent for Kerala Polls

A day after she resigned as Mahila Congress chief and tonsured her head in protest following denial of ticket, Lathika Subhash on Monday quit the party and decided to contest as an independent for the April 6 assembly election from Ettumanoor in Kottayam. Fiftysix-year-old Subhash, an AICC member, said she had sent in her resignation letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran.

In the letter to Gandhi, Subhash said: “Congress had miserably failed to understand the feeling of Mahila Congress and its workers. As a woman, I feel this is a planned neglect against us.” “None of the Mahila Congress representatives had got the ticket to contest in the election,” she said. The parent organisation had not meted justice to the Mahila congress, the senior leader said resigning from the AICC.