Senior celebration functionaries mentioned the faction, led by former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has sought to dominate the celebration’s selection of candidates and marginalise different highly effective leaders like Kiran Choudhry and Randeep Surjewala. File
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The bitter factionalism inside Haryana Congress over ticket distribution has come into sharp focus as a three-member committee of the celebration has did not resolve the variations which have emerged over the selection of Lok Sabha candidates in some seats.
Senior celebration functionaries informed TheHindu that the faction, led by former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has sought to dominate the celebration’s selection of candidates and marginalise different highly effective leaders like Kiran Choudhry and Randeep Surjewala.
In Bhiwani, for instance, the State unit needs to discipline Rao Dhan Singh, a Yadav chief, instead of former Lok Sabha member Shruti Choudhry, who’s the daughter of former Haryana minister and five-term MLA Kiran Choudhry.
Ms. Kiran, who has been a Cupboard Minister in Haryana twice, is understood to be an open critic and rival of Mr. Hooda. Some individuals have alleged that the Hooda camp needs to discipline Mr. Singh although seven out of 9 Meeting segments underneath Bhiwani Lok Sabha seats are dominated by Jats, the neighborhood Ms. Choudhry belongs to.
There’s a tussle over the Gurugram and Faridabad seats too.
In Gurugram, Captain Ajay Yadav is being backed by a number of senior leaders of the non-Hooda camp however Mr. Hooda needs to discipline movie actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar from the seat. Mr. Babbar is alleged to have been accommodated after he did not get a seat from Chandigarh.
Kumari Selja is the one non-Hooda faction chief who has been allotted the Sirsa Lok Sabha seat.
Final Saturday, on the assembly of the Central Election Committee (CEC), former Congress president Sonia Gandhi recommended the organising of a committee to kind out the variations. Sources mentioned the three-member panel of Okay C Venugopal, Madhusudan Mistry and Salman Khurshid has not been in a position to give you an answer that’s to the satisfaction of all of the camps in Haryana Congress.
