Amid the rift in the Congress over the selection of 14 presidents of the District Congress Committee (DCC), senior leader and ex-MLA A V Gopinath on Monday announced his resignation from the primary membership of the party.
Gopinath, a former president of the Palakkad DCC and a member of the KPCC, said he was ending his 50-year-long association with the Congress party. Announcing the resignation from the party at a press conference here, the senior leader said he would not like to continue as a stumbling block in the progress of the party for which he worked tirelessly for the last five decades.