Congress lost power in 2019 in Haryana state only due to internal rift between party’s senior leaders and in-spite of defeat in 2019 Vidhan Sabha polls still there is no improvement in relationship between senior party leaders still divided in two groups led by former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda also leader of opposition in state Vidhan Sabha and former Union Minister Kumari Shelja also a former Rajya Sabha member as well as former HPCC president in the state. Surprisingly, even the members of rival groups do not attend party gatherings by the leader of both groups which was observed recently in a function when Kumari Shelja had a get-together at her Ambala Cantt residence about a month ago in which large number of Congress leaders and workers from Ambala and adjoining districts were present but to utter surprise there was not a single Congress worker or leader from rival Hooda group present in this function, when questioned by media persons Shelja changed the topic.
A two-days meeting of the Haryana Congress Committee was held in Chandigarh recently on 24th and 25th June in which Deepak Babaria the new in-charge of the party in Haryana state was present as the chief guest in this meeting authorized by the Congress high command as well as HPCC President Uday Bhan who had invited All India Congress Committee members, Congress MLAs in the state, former MPs and former MLAs to attend this meeting and take feeding rrom them for the coming Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha polls in the state.
Information reveals that after a long time such meeting was held by Congress in Haryana in which the leaders of Congress had been called on a platform by senior Congress leader Deepak Babaria was going to hold the first time meeting after assuming the post of party in-charge in the state to review preparations for 2014 polls and seek suggestions by former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Congress National General Secretary Randeep Surjewala, senior leaders Kiran Choudhary, Kumari Selja, Captain Ajay Yadav and many more in the list including formers MPs and MLAs as well as district presidents in the party in the state invited to join meeting after absence of Congress activities in the state after about nine years which is a biggest challenge before the newly appointed in-charge to end factionalism within the party since Congress has failed to form an organization in the state for the last 10 years in-spite of the fact senior political leaders like Phool Chand Mullana, Dr. Ashok Tanwar and Kumari Selja have been holding the charge of HPCC presidents failed to inject energy in Congress party’s arms and build the organization in the state.
Information reveals that Deepak Babaria was much disappointed to find that the supporters of both groups started shouting slogans in favour of their leader amidst meeting was going on when Kumari Shelja left the place silently without making any comments. However, while talking to media persons Bhupinder Singh Hooda expressed deep concern over fast increasing unemployment among youths, increasing prices of essential commodities, increasing crimes and rising cases of drug smuggling as well as drug addiction in the state saying that Haryana has become No. 1 in all these sectors across the country.
