The decision to appoint the leader of the Congress Legislative Party and the state president in Haryana has been left to the high command. Many issues were discussed in the meeting held on Wednesday. The Congress leadership will decide on the CLP leader before the session begins in Haryana on March 7. In such a situation, it is necessary to announce the name of the leader before the session.
Chandigarh: The decision to appoint the leader of the Congress Legislative Party and the state president in Haryana has been left to the Congress high command in Delhi under the chairmanship of BK Hariprasad.  This decision was taken in a meeting of senior leaders of all factions of the state Congress chaired by Haryana affairs in-charge BK Hariprasad. Haryana Congress after knowing the views of the leaders through one-to-one meetings held at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday discussed many issues including the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP), state president, formation of the organization in Haryana were discussed. However, the party president Mallikarjun Kharge and the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi were also likely to attend the meeting, but they did not come. In such a situation, BK Hariprasad sought the opinion of all the leaders regarding the post of CLP leader and state president.

However, Some MLAs present in the meeting jointly presented their views and suggestions to the in-charge and many prominent Congress leaders met separately through one-to-one meetings to give their opinion to the senior party leaders regarding both the posts. Most of the MLAs present in the meeting said that the budget session is starting from March 7 since the previous session was also held without a leader of the opposition. In such a situation, the Congress high command leadership should decide on the CLP leader before the session begins. Since the CLP leader will become the Leader of the Opposition, most of the leaders of the Hooda camp have once again demanded that the former Chief Minister should be made the CLP leader. At the same time, the in-charge said that these MLAs and senior leaders should also talk to the central observers in this matter. Actually, the high command had appointed observers to select the leader of the Congress Legislature Party which included former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, senior certral party leaders Ajay Maken, TS Singhdev and Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Pratap Singh Bajwa.

The four leaders also consulted all the MLAs at the state Congress headquarters in Chandigarh. The in-charge said that the central observers should give their report and the feedback of the MLAs in this regard to the leadership so that a decision can be taken on it. On Wednesday, first the in-charge of Haryana affairs held a joint meeting in which there was a discussion on running the party’s national campaign ‘Jai Bapu-Jai Bhim-Jai Samvidhaan’ campaign in Haryana state. In fact, the decision to run this campaign was taken in the Congress Working Committee meeting held in Belgaum. This campaign will be started soon in Haryana also and the programs will be held at all districts, constituencies and block levels across Haryana state. It was decided in the meeting that workshops will be organized to strengthen the organization at the state and district level. During the one-to-one meeting, the leaders of the anti-Hooda camp raised the demand for change in the state leadership. Party state president Chaudhary Udaybhan also mentioned the results of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections during the meeting. He said that in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress got more votes than BJP, whereas In the assembly elections, the vote share of Congress was almost equal to that of BJP. He said that due to lack of organization in the state for 11 years, there was a heavy loss in the elections.

The Congress called a meeting of the legislative party on Thursday (today) to formulate a strategy to corner the government on various issues during the budget session of the Vidhan Sabha. All the party MLAs have been asked to attend the meeting to be held at the state Congress headquarters at 5 pm. Among those to be present in this meeting include former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, National General Secretary and MP Kumari Selja and Randeep Singh Surjewala, former Union Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh, National Chairman of OBC Department Captain Ajay Singh Yadav, Lok Sabha members Deepender Hooda, Jaiprakash ‘JP’, Varun Chaudhary and Satpal Brahmachari. MLAs Dr Raghubir Singh Kadian, Geeta Bhukkal, Kuldeep Vats, Aftab Ahmed, Ashok Arora, Raghubir Singh Tewatia, Shakuntala Khatak, BB Batra, Induraj Narwal, Chander Prakash and Naresh Selwal, former speaker Kuldeep Sharma, former minister Karan Singh Dalal and former CPS Rao Dan Singh, Haryana affairs co-incharge Jitendra Baghel and Prafulla Patel, national secretaries Vinit Poonia, Chiranjeev Rao, Chetan Chauhan and Pradeep Narwal.