Former Congress leader PC Chacko joins NCP

Senior leader PC Chacko, who quit the Congress last week, has joined the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday.

Senior leader PC Chacko, who quit the Congress last week, has joined the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday. PC Chacko quit the Congress party after being a part of it for decades. Resigning from the party, Chacko has said it was "difficult" to be in the party. The resignation left the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi red-faced as it came just ahead of the Kerala Assembly election. In his resignation letter last week, Chacko had said, "I have quit Congress and sent my resignation to party's interim chief Sonia Gandhi. I worked hard for the party, but it is really difficult to work with the Kerala Congress team. I stood with every decision taken by Congress, but it's now very difficult. You can't run a party with one central character."