Targeting Hooda, Tanwar says ‘putra moh’ behind Mahabharata in Cong

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, October 6

Launching a veiled attack on former Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former state Congress president Ashok Tanwar today accused him of having ruined the party for furthering his vested political interests.

Tanwar, who was here to observe the third anniversary of “zulm-divas” (attack on him during a Congress event in Delhi in 2016), termed his opponents in the Congress as “demons” and equated Hooda with Mahabharata character Dhritrashtra.

“The ongoing Mahabharata in the Haryana Congress is due to the ‘putra-moh’ (affection for son) of a state Congress leader,” Tanwar remarked, apparently referring to Hooda and his son Deepender, though he refused to specify the Dhritrashtra he was referring to.

On being questioned what stopped him from naming his political rival(s), Tanwar quipped: “Who can pressurise me? There is no pressure; it’s just my way of saying things. Some people may name their rivals, I don’t.”

Asked which character of the Mahabharata was he playing, Tanwar stated that he had the “sudarshan-chakra” with which he would traverse the entire state and support the well-meaning leaders contesting the elections to the Haryana Assembly.

He, however, asserted that he had no plans to join any party or form one of his own as of now. Replying to a question regarding the BJP, Tanwar remarked: “Woh kaunse doodh ke dhuley hain.”