Shaking the whip at dissidents, Congress in Jharkhand on Thursday issued a notice of demonstrative cause to senior leader Furqan Ansari for criticizing Rahul Gandhi and the party’s state official, RPN Singh, people familiar with the matter said.
Ansari, a former member of Godda’s Lok Sabha in Jharkhand, had questioned Rahul Gandhi’s campaign in Bihar. He also claimed that the people who worked in Rahul Gandhi’s office and his advisers were primarily MBA graduates.
“As a result, they can’t give you the right advice or suggest key talking points for your campaign speeches. To strengthen Congress, it is important that Rahul Gandhi have a political adviser, “he said.
Ansari’s son, Irfan, is currently a legislator for Jamtara.
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Ansari, 72, also said he will write to the president of Congress, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and seek a major reform in the party organization.
Ansari also attacked Jharkhand in charge, RPN Singh. “If I were in charge, I wouldn’t have appointed him (Singh) even a bloc president,” he said.
State leaders demanded strict action against Ansari to send a “severe message” to dissidents.
Responding to requests from various leaders, the Jharkhand Acting Chairman of the partyKamlesh Mahto Kamlesh issued the notice of demonstrative cause to Ansari on behalf of the head of the state unit Rameshwar Oraon, who is in treatment for Covid-19.
In the notice, Ansari has been asked to explain its comments within seven days. His statements to the media against Rahul Gandhi and RPN Singh have hurt the statements of party workers. There is an established rule in the party that no congressional leader will make any press statements against the leadership. You have violated that rule, ”the notice said.
Differences in Congress have surfaced again after the results of the assembly elections in Bihar and by-elections in several states, including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh. The main leader of Congress, Kapil Sibal, spoke publicly and insisted that Congress needs efficient and high-level leaders to administer the elections.
Sibal, a former union minister and one of 23 signatories to a letter sent to Congress President Sonia Gandhi in August this year seeking internal elections and an organizational review, questioned leaders about the election debacle and asked if ” they continued as always “.
The comments triggered a war of words within Congress when Rajasthan Prime Minister Ashok Gehlot responded to Sibal, claiming that his comments “hurt the feelings” of workers and reminded him that the party had been through crisis several times in the past. past.
On Tuesday, senior congressional leader and former union minister Salman Khurshid also investigated Sibal. In a Facebook post, Khurshid said that if the electorate’s mood is resistant to the liberal values that the party has embraced and cherished, it should be prepared for a long struggle rather than looking for shortcuts to return to power.
Congress leader P Chidambaram also stated that the party’s performance in the assembly elections in Bihar and in the by-elections in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka show that “there is no organizational presence on the ground or has weakened considerably ”.
In an interview with Dainik Bhaskar, the former finance minister of the Chidambaram union said that Congress fought more seats in Bihar than its organizing strength, and called for a “comprehensive review” of the survey results. However, he added that he was “more concerned” about the results of the by-elections.
As part of the Mahagathbandhan, or Grand Alliance, Congress contested 70 seats, but managed to win only 19, which affected the Opposition’s chances of overthrowing the ruling coalition from power; he won only nine of the 28 seats in Madhya Pradesh and was unable to open his account in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Manipur.
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