Cong serves notices to 11 UP veterans, slams them for opposing revamp

LUCKNOW: The Congress on Thursday served notices to 11 leaders in Uttar Pradesh, for “unnecessarily opposing” the party over the revamp of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) in October. The sharply-worded notice asked them to reply to the charges against them within 24 hours. A UP Congress press release said the notices were sent by the State unit’s disciplinary committee on the instructions of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is the general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh (West), and UPCC president Ajay Kumar Lallu. They were served notices “in view of their acts of indiscipline,” it said. The 11 leaders are mostly old-timers, disgruntled after the reorganisation of the UPCC on October 7 when Lallu replaced Raj Babbar as the State unit’s president. They include an AICC member, former ministers, a district unit chief and one-time MLAs.