Nath: No groupism, but lack of coordination in Haryana Cong
Announces to set up committee to resolve differences among state party leaders
CHANDIGARH: Congress general secretary Kamal Nath, who has been appointed party’s Haryana affairs in-charge, on Tuesday announced to set up a committee to address the issue of differences among state party leaders.
Interacting with newspersons after holding his maiden meeting with the state executive committee members, Kamal Nath, who faced a volley of questions on groupism in the state Congress, insisted there was no groupism in the party. “Nonetheless, I have been informed about the lack of coordination in the party, which both the leaders and workers felt,” he said.
Kamal Nath, who was accompanied by former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, state Congress president Ashok Tanwar, Congress legislature party (CLP) leader Kiran Choudhry and Rajya Sabha member Kumari Selja, also maintained that none of the state leaders had ever complained to him against any other leader.
There have been frequent instances when the groupism in the Congress had come to fore with the MLAs and leaders belonging to the Hooda and Tanwar camps, keeping distance from each other’s programmes. After the recent Jat agitation, which saw large-scale violence and arson, Tanwar separately held meetings with stir victims in Hooda’s citadel. Also, the supporters of the two sporting turbans of different colours at rallies is also a well- known phenomenon.
Kamal Nath said the committee which would be formed to work out proper coordination among leaders would also periodically make the schedule for party’s programmes.
To a question on district-level committees, he said district- and block-level committees would be formed within the next four months by including both the veteran leaders and new faces.
On Dhingra commission constituted by the BJP government to probe murky land deals of some companies, including the Skylight Hospitality, owned by Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra in Gurgaon, Kamal Nath said the Dhingra panel was not a commission of inquiry but a political commission.
Regarding the recent Rajya Sabha elections in Haryana in which Supreme Court advocate RK Anand, backed by the opposition Congress and INLD, had lost, he said that it was a major case of cheating with the Congress. “The truth would come out after the ongoing probe conducted by the Election Commission,” he said.
“The BJP government is a government of event management, doing politics of advertisements and their policy was ‘Jhooth bolo, zor se bolo, baar baar bolo’ (Tell lies, loudly and repeatedly),” he said.
Earlier in the day, he exhorted the members of the state executive committee to apprise the people of the state about the “misrule” of the BJP government. “The farmers and educated youths are worst-hit under the BJP rule,” he added.
There is no groupism in the Haryana Congress. Nonetheless, I have been informed about the lack of coordination in the party, which both the leaders and workers felt.
KAMAL NATH, Congress leader in-charge of Haryana affairs