Demonstration of faith in Congress confidants Gandhi family leadership on Sunday CWC meeting Failed to sink discord notes made on Monday by two party stalwarts – former president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Sunil Jakhari Former CM declared Charanjit Singh Channi “A Responsibility” and Former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat claimed that he lost the election as he was forced to contest from the wrong seat.
Jakhar took to Twitter to mock party stalwart Ambika Soni, saying that the alleged CWC poll postmortem did not support Channi by top Punjab Congress leaders, who by naming the state’s first Dalit CM of the central leadership a “national asset”. “We’re going against the effort to make.
Jakhar also tweeted a picture of Channi with the caption: “ED seizes Rs 10 cr from Channi’s nephew; CM weeps.”
In Uttarakhand, Rawat responds to speculation about being wary of facing party chief Sonia Gandhi Posting on Facebook after his defeat in Lalkuan, he said that he wants to contest from Ramnagar seat instead.
Harish Rawat made no secret of his displeasure over the Congress’s decision to promote Aqeel Ahmed as party secretary after promising to open a Muslim university, terming it “a matter that needs investigation”.
In Punjab, the unease in the Congress came to the fore when Jakhar tweeted: “A property – are you kidding? Thank God he was not declared a ‘National Treasure’ by the ‘PBI’ lady in CWC who had proposed him as CM in the first place. May be an asset to him but to the party he has been a liability. It was not the top officials but their own greed that dragged them and the party down.
He later told TOI, “An aura was built around his humble origins. But even he was caught in the hand. It shattered the image we were trying to create.”
Recalling how he had opposed the idea of Channi being made the chief minister from the very beginning, Jakhar said, “I got an opportunity to travel with him. Rahul Gandhi Chandigarh to Delhi. The next day, he called me and asked me to join Channi’s cabinet as his deputy, but I declined. I said that I cannot accept Channi as my leader… Today, I feel guilty for not putting more pressure on it. I should have tried to convince him (Rahul) that this man (Chani) is not fit.
Trust you’re putting that on him.”
He also hit out at Rawat and called him the “fountain” of whatever went wrong in the party’s state unit. “I believe divine justice has been done and he has lost his own seat in the Uttarakhand elections. The script was written by Rawat, who had come to Punjab with an agenda… I doubted what he was doing. He called Navjot Singh Sidhu Rafale.
Jakhar said that when CM Amarinder Singh was on the verge of being replaced, there should have been a succession plan.
In Uttarakhand, the election race was equally fierce, with Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh appearing to target Rawat. Rawat replied to Singh’s jibe on FB. “I decide to contest”
It belonged to the party from Ramnagar and it was also the party’s decision to field me from Lalkuan. i wanted to contest
from Ramnagar. All preparations were made for filing nomination, but I was told that the party has decided that I should contest from Lalkuan.
Jakhar took to Twitter to mock party stalwart Ambika Soni, saying that the alleged CWC poll postmortem did not support Channi by top Punjab Congress leaders, who by naming the state’s first Dalit CM of the central leadership a “national asset”. “We’re going against the effort to make.
Jakhar also tweeted a picture of Channi with the caption: “ED seizes Rs 10 cr from Channi’s nephew; CM weeps.”
In Uttarakhand, Rawat responds to speculation about being wary of facing party chief Sonia Gandhi Posting on Facebook after his defeat in Lalkuan, he said that he wants to contest from Ramnagar seat instead.
Harish Rawat made no secret of his displeasure over the Congress’s decision to promote Aqeel Ahmed as party secretary after promising to open a Muslim university, terming it “a matter that needs investigation”.
In Punjab, the unease in the Congress came to the fore when Jakhar tweeted: “A property – are you kidding? Thank God he was not declared a ‘National Treasure’ by the ‘PBI’ lady in CWC who had proposed him as CM in the first place. May be an asset to him but to the party he has been a liability. It was not the top officials but their own greed that dragged them and the party down.
He later told TOI, “An aura was built around his humble origins. But even he was caught in the hand. It shattered the image we were trying to create.”
Recalling how he had opposed the idea of Channi being made the chief minister from the very beginning, Jakhar said, “I got an opportunity to travel with him. Rahul Gandhi Chandigarh to Delhi. The next day, he called me and asked me to join Channi’s cabinet as his deputy, but I declined. I said that I cannot accept Channi as my leader… Today, I feel guilty for not putting more pressure on it. I should have tried to convince him (Rahul) that this man (Chani) is not fit.
Trust you’re putting that on him.”
He also hit out at Rawat and called him the “fountain” of whatever went wrong in the party’s state unit. “I believe divine justice has been done and he has lost his own seat in the Uttarakhand elections. The script was written by Rawat, who had come to Punjab with an agenda… I doubted what he was doing. He called Navjot Singh Sidhu Rafale.
Jakhar said that when CM Amarinder Singh was on the verge of being replaced, there should have been a succession plan.
In Uttarakhand, the election race was equally fierce, with Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh appearing to target Rawat. Rawat replied to Singh’s jibe on FB. “I decide to contest”
It belonged to the party from Ramnagar and it was also the party’s decision to field me from Lalkuan. i wanted to contest
from Ramnagar. All preparations were made for filing nomination, but I was told that the party has decided that I should contest from Lalkuan.