He had received threat calls and hate messages "through the night". Reportedly a lot of things that happened in the last 24 hours especially from certain corners of Congress forced him for this drastic step. Anil Antony, who was part of the Congress's social media cell in Kerala, shared his resignation letter on Twitter and cited "abuses by ones supporting a trek to promote love" in a caustic reference to Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra.