The late Bhajan Lal, a three-time chief minister, was known as the ‘Chanakya’ of Haryana politics. His son Kuldeep Bishnoi seems to have demonstrated his legacy of political strategy by playing a key role in the defeat of Congress candidate Ajay Maken in the Rajya Sabha elections on Friday.
Congress MLA from Adampur did not vote for Maken in the election. It was his chosen moment to return to the Congress high command, which had overlooked him for the post of Haryana Congress state president on April 27 this year. The Congress had chosen a Dalit leader in Udaybhan, considered close to former Haryana CM and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Angered since then and failing to meet Rahul Gandhi, Bishnoi has chosen the time of his return.
Anger was boiling when Bishnoi was expected to be made the state president of the party. Rahul Gandhi First and tell your closest confidants about your hopes being high. However, in the end, Hooda managed to find his way out and had to die. Bishnoi and his father had a long feud with Hooda, both of whom quit the party in 2007 and formed the Haryana Janhit Congress after Bishnoi strongly criticized the policies of the then CM Bhupinder Hooda. In 2011, Bishnoi also forged an alliance with the BJP.
But it was Rahul Gandhi who brought Bishnoi back to the Congress in 2016 and Bishnoi merged his party with the Congress. Before the recent fall, the two had good equations.
“Like you, I’m angry too. But we don’t have to take any steps until I meet Rahul Gandhi. Please keep calm,” Bishnoi tweeted on April 27 after his supporters were ignored for the post His secret posts, including praising Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, were indicating his imminent rebellion. “He was boiling over his humiliation,” admitted a leader close to him.
Political insiders in Haryana also speak of Bishnoi’s proximity to Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala, who has actually stated as his “personal opinion” that Bishnoi was fit to become the state PCC chief.
Rahul Gandhi has chosen to rely on Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his son Deepender Hooda in the next Haryana elections as Hooda said he was given the charge too late in the previous elections and as a result the Congress lost to the BJP.
Will Congress’s bets pay off or will BJP get players like Kuldeep Bishnoi to strengthen its camp? Only time will tell, but for the time being Ajay Maken has paid the price for the ongoing tussle in the Congress camp in Haryana. Bhajanlal’s son has probably killed where it will hurt the most.
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