Jaipur: Former external affairs minister Natwar Singh has quit the Congress party.
"Today I quit Congress," Natwar Singh said at a Jat rally near Jaipur on Wednesday.
The rally was organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in memory of Maharaja Surajmal, the former maharaja of Bharatpur.
Congress was already unhappy with the conduct of Singh and had even said in June 2007 that it wants him disqualified and suspended from Rajya Sabha.
Singh has supported the candidature of Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, a BJP leader, in the race for the post of President.
Singh was suspended from the party this year after an inquiry indicted him and his son Jagat Singh for their role in Iraq's oil-for-food scam.
A CNN-IBN Special Investigation report also showed hawala kingpin Chetan Gupta admitting on camera that he was involved in money laundering operations for Singh and his wife Herminder Kumari.
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