Overview
- Sampat Singh emailed his resignation to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on November 2 after escalating disputes in the state unit.
- INLD chief Abhay Singh Chautala welcomed him in Chandigarh on November 5 and announced his appointment as party patron.
- Singh noted the INLD has two MLAs in the 90-member Haryana Assembly and pledged to build it into the principal alternative to the BJP.
- In his resignation letter, he alleged the Haryana Congress had become a 'personal fiefdom' that rewards loyalty with servitude and exiles dissenters.
- The 76-year-old, a longtime associate of the late Chaudhary Devi Lal, has previously moved between INLD, Congress and a brief BJP stint before this return.