New Delhi: Former senior Congress leader P.C. Chacko is set to join Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party as the Kerala elections are coming near. Chacko met Pawar in Delhi on Tuesday.

In a major setback to the Congress party, senior leader PC Chacko resigned from the party on 10 March by sending his resignation to party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi.

“I have quit Congress and sent my resignation to party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi,” said Senior Congress leader PC Chacko. “I’d been deliberating upon this decision for past many days. I come from Kerala where there’s no Congress party as such. There are 2 parties – Congress (I) & Congress (A). It’s coordination committee of 2 parties functioning as KPCC,” said PC Chacko.

“Kerala is facing a crucial election. People want Congress to come back but there’s groupism practiced by top leaders of Congress. I have been arguing with a high command that this should be ended. But the high command is also agreeing to the proposal given by both groups,” he said.