congress: Heated exchanges at Haryana Congress leadership meeting with Rahul Gandhi

A closed-door assembly of a choose senior Haryana Congress leaders with Rahul Gandhi and AICC representatives on Friday witnessed heated exchanges. The assembly, convened to debate methods to strengthen the Haryana Congress forward of the Lok Sabha and meeting polls, befell within the backdrop of intensifying factional positioning with competing stakeholders making an attempt to wrest the PCC management, at the moment held by Kumari Selja. The assembly was additionally convened in backdrop of the Gandhi-Vadra management stature taking additional hit following the latest ballot routs and dealing with stress from change-seekers which incorporates BS Hooda whose shares frosty ties with Selja. The Congress is reeling below the crippling defeat in Punjab, following a mix of in-house feud, factionalism, caste and the excessive command’s mishandling of get together affairs.

In keeping with get together insiders, Gandhi burdened on the necessity for Haryana Congress leaders to hit the bottom working straight away to emerge stronger forward of the 2024 polls. After he urged the state leaders to provide their views, in-house rivalry performed out in full steam. Selja is learnt to have bluntly instructed the assembly that neither the Hooda camp cooperated, nor AICC institution helped her with PCC organisational crew and districts and blocks-level committees regardless of her repeated pleas, forcing her to wrestle on with a skeleton crew of three or 4 workplace bearers since her elevation as state Congress chief in 2019end. She is learnt to have denounced ‘makes an attempt to scale back’ her to a token PCC chief, regardless of the excessive command projecting her as a Dalit and girl chief when she was appointed. Selja focused Hooda and his affiliation with the get together’s change-seekers by telling Gandhi that some leaders “who by no means cooperated” in strengthening Congress’ battle in opposition to BJP at the moment are publicly taking over the get together excessive command.

Hooda, the Chief of Opposition in Haryana, is learnt to have stoutly denied the cost and maintained there was an pressing want for strengthening the Congress organisation in Haryana. He mentioned he was second to none in combating BJP leaders, together with the PM and CM. His son Deepender Hooda, in accordance with get together insiders, brazenly pitched for a ‘Jat management’ of the Haryana Congress by stressing the necessity for a ‘proper narrative’ forward of polls. He’s perceived to be Hooda camp’s first desire for PCC management.

Kuldeep Bishnoi, is learnt to have tried to mission himself as a pacesetter of non-Jat chief sections. However Hooda junior reminded Bishnoi that his son misplaced the Hissar miserably, regardless of the non-Jat majority within the constituency. In keeping with insiders, Randeep Surjewala, extensively seen eyeing the PCC submit, projected himself as a ‘involved senior chief’ by stressing on HPCC’s process of combating BJP and checking AAP and recalled how as not too long ago as 2005 the Congress secured a majority within the state. It prompted one other PCC chief aspirant, Kiran Chowdhury, to recall how the 2005 victory was made potential additionally on account of her late father-in-law Bansi Lal’s get together merging with the Congress.

The leaders later held one-on-one temporary conferences with Gandhi. The Congress chief is predicted to make a ultimate resolution on the management roles within the Haryana get together unit.