The friction over the leadership of the Mumbai Regional Youth Congress has intensified further, with Suraj Singh Thakur resigning from the post of working president, in protest of party MLA Zeeshan Siddique’s appointment as its president.

Zeeshan and Suraj were assigned the jobs through a common letter on August 15, several months after they had finished as the first and second, respectively, in registering youth as members online. The process had also asked for preferences for the various posts in the Mumbai unit last November.