‘Go And Show Your Ego To Your Boyfriend KC Venugopal’: Ex-TN Congress Leader Hazeena Syed’s Accuses AIMC President Alka Lamba Of Looting Membership Money, Harassing Women Leaders
In a dramatic sequence of events that has exposed deep fault lines within the Tamil Nadu Congress, M. Hazeena Syed, the outgoing President of the Tamil Nadu Pradesh Mahila Congress, has launched a scathing public attack on All India Mahila Congress (AIMC) President Alka Lamba, accusing her of harassment, financial misconduct, and abusing organisational power, after Lamba issued an expulsion notice against her for “anti-party activities.”
The Resignation That Came First
Hazeena Syed, a three-decade Congress loyalist who rose from the student wing through the Talent Hand programme of 2008, officially tendered her resignation on April 10, 2026 at a press conference at 1:00 PM. In letters addressed to Rahul Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, she stated that despite the Congress’s own Central Election Committee (CEC) and Rahul Gandhi personally pushing for her to receive an assembly ticket in the 2026 Tamil Nadu elections, she was denied the opportunity to contest and was “humiliated in the process”. She resigned from the post of State President of Tamil Nadu Mahila Congress and from primary membership of the Congress party.
In her letter to Rahul Gandhi, she pointedly stated: “Despite the decision of CEC and your good self’s insistence on giving me a ticket for the recent Assembly Elections, I was denied the opportunity to contest, and was humiliated in the process. This has not only hurt me personally but also brought disrepute to the party.”
She named multiple functionaries as responsible for the injustice, including TNCC President Selvaperunthagai, former Tamil Nadu in-charge Srivella Prasad, AICC Secretary Pushpa Raj (associated with Sam Pitroda), and Tamil Nadu in-charge Girish Chodankar.
The Expulsion Notice That Triggered the Firestorm
Hours after her public resignation, Alka Lamba issued a formal order expelling Hazeena Syed from the post of Tamil Nadu Pradesh Mahila Congress President, citing her involvement in “anti-party activities” and stating that the action was taken “in the interest of maintaining organisational discipline and integrity.” The expulsion came after Hazeena’s supporters had staged a protest at the TNCC headquarters on March 1, with some reportedly carrying petrol canisters and threatening self-immolation if she was not given a seat.
Hazeena’s Counterattack: Harassment, Fraud, and a Sharp Personal Rebuke
The issuance of the expulsion letter, which arrived after Hazeena had already publicly resigned, triggered an explosive response.
In an email dated April 11, 2026, at 12:30 AM, sent to tamilnadu.congress@gmail.com and addressed to Alka Lamba, and in a parallel post on her X handle @SyedHazeena, Hazeena unleashed a point-by-point set of allegations against the AIMC President.
In the email she wrote, on the expulsion notice itself, she dismissed it as legally and morally redundant: “Do you have any common sense – I have already resigned yesterday, in the official press meet at 1:00 PM on 10th April 2026, I have declared the same.”
On financial misconduct, she raised the most serious allegation that Alka Lamba had been using membership funds for personal luxury, writing: “Your living on our membership money – does this party have the guts to audit the AIMC account, which you are spending on your luxury and is it accountable?” She further added: “You will have to take an FIR on you like your K.C. & Co., for illegitimate account transaction for membership fraudulence – for which I have legal proofs.”
On harassment, Hazeena was direct: “One of the main reasons for my resignation is your harassment – so mind your job and shut up.”
On Alka Lamba’s political background, she attacked Lamba’s credibility within Congress, writing: “You have jumped from Aam Aadmi Party to ruin Congress – mind you and stay quiet, else I will fix you.”
In a strongly worded post on X, Hazeena directly attacked Lamba, alleging systemic harassment under the guise of party processes. “what kind of a saddist you are, you dont help any of us in mahila congress but harass us in the name of membership and loot money and enjoy your life, do you have any common sense i have been humiliated i have resigned officially in front of media in a press meet at 1:00 p.m and who the heck are you to send me a expel letter, are you prince diana??”
@LambaAlka what kind of a saddist you are, you dont help any of us in mahila congress but harass us in the name of membership and loot money and enjoy your life, do you have any common sense i have been humiliated i have resigned officially in front of media in a press meet at… pic.twitter.com/BlxPovXNJ3
— hazeena syed (@SyedHazeena) April 10, 2026
Alka Lamba & Her Controversies
Alka Lamba’s political career has been marked by a string of controversies spanning over a decade. Perhaps the most damaging came in 2012, when she was serving on a National Commission for Women fact-finding team investigating the Guwahati molestation case – she held a press conference and publicly revealed the identity of the sexual assault victim, a move widely condemned and one that led to her removal from the NCW committee.
In August 2015, while serving as AAP MLA from Chandni Chowk, CCTV footage caught her leading a mob armed with lathis and cricket bats to vandalise a liquor shop in the Kashmere Gate area of Old Delhi, reportedly because the shopkeeper, a BJP supporter, had objected to her party’s posters on his windows. Her tenure with the Aam Aadmi Party itself ended in controversy in 2019, when she was disqualified from the Delhi Assembly by the Speaker for violating anti-defection rules after she quit AAP to rejoin Congress.
More recently, in July 2024 just months after being appointed AIMC President, a fresh controversy erupted at a Madhya Pradesh Mahila Congress meeting, where a party worker alleged that Lamba told aides to “shoe her out of the meeting” (“Jute maar ke bahar kar do”). It is this pattern of high-handedness toward her own party’s women workers that Hazeena Syed has now cited as central to her resignation, alleging that Lamba’s conduct at the national level has made life difficult for state-level Mahila Congress functionaries across the country.
Hazeena Syed’s exit marks the end of a 30-year association with the Congress that began with the student wing. Appointed as Tamil Nadu Mahila Congress President in 2024, she also served as a national secretary of the women’s wing. The confrontation, now playing out publicly across email and social media, is widely seen as symptomatic of deeper organisational dysfunction in the Tamil Nadu Congress ahead of a critical state assembly election.
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