A gathering between erstwhile Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and former Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad has ruffled feathers inside the social gathering’s state unit with some leaders looking for an evidence on the interplay between the 2 even because the ex-CM mentioned he at all times stood by the Gandhi household.

Congress Working Committee member and former union minister Kumari Selja introduced up the difficulty of the assembly earlier than senior social gathering functionaries. “Such a gathering disheartens the social gathering’s rank and file as he (Azad) stop the social gathering after blaming the management and even made private feedback in opposition to our leaders,” she mentioned. “It was no time to satisfy him as he has already introduced the formation of a brand new social gathering.”

Hooda, together with different so-called G23 insurgent leaders, together with Anand Sharma and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, had met Azad at his Delhi residence on Tuesday.

“Azad didn’t inform anybody earlier than leaving the social gathering. Earlier, our demand was that an election for the Congress president’s put up ought to occur which was already agreed to. I met him in order that bitterness between leaders is lowered,” Hooda, Haryana’s chief of opposition (LoP) within the meeting, informed the media.

Selja, a bitter Hooda critic, had been faraway from the put up of the Haryana unit chief not too long ago and changed by Hooda loyalist Udai Bhan after bickering which threatened to snowball into a significant controversy. Many senior leaders had threatened to stop after Bhan was made the state social gathering chief. Nonetheless, to douse the flames of insurrection a number of the leaders loyal to different lobbies had been accommodated.

Azad resigned from the Congress on August 26. In his resignation letter, he mentioned that he had reached some extent of no return with social gathering president Sonia Gandhi serving as a nominal figurehead since 2019 and all selections being taken by Rahul Gandhi or “worse nonetheless his safety guards and private assistants”.

With inputs from News18