KEEPING TABS ON POWER POLITICS IN PUNJAB, HARYANA, HIMACHAL PRADESH AND JAMMU AND KASHMIR
presence. A video clip of former Muktsar MLA Karan Kaur Brar went viral last week in which she was asking her supporters to record their videos before heading for the public meeting and after reaching the rally venue. They were told to send these videos to a Whatsapp number with clear instructions that their failure to do so will mean absence from the rally. Why this trust deficit? to show concern and told police to take action,” he said before griping about total lack of concern in the ruling Congress after the former deputy CM’S convoy was attacked. He said no one from the Congress government cared to ask. undertaken by the Haryana Mahila Congress across the state last week again brought out the ongoing factional feud in the party. As announced before its start, Mahila Congress national president Sushmita Dev, former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, AICC media in-charge Randeep Surjewala, Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda and some MLAS attended the march on different occasions. But senior leaders such as Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar, former Union minister Kumari Selja and Congress Legislature Party leader Kiran Choudhry were conspicuous for their absence. Selja and Choudhry are among the senior-most women politicians of the party in the state. subtly deplored HP Congress chief Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu over the appointment of the state, district and block-level office-bearers. Sukhu, who was also sharing the dais with the ex-cm, said that Gandhi Jayanti was not the occasion to speak on party matters. “Mahatma Gandhi always advocated truth and I am also speaking truth that appointments were being made to facilitate a particular group owing allegiance to Sukhu,” Virbhadra replied without batting an eyelid.