New office-bearers’ list bares chinks in Congress

Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 1

Terming the appointment of new office-bearers and executive committee a start of the “Chandigarh Congress mukat” innings, previous city party president Pardeep Chhabra held current party chief Subhash Chawla and former party MP Pawan Kumar Bansal responsible for excluding some of the previous members.

In a post on Twitter, Chhabra said proud, sycophants, backbiters and those with money power had their say in the release of the new list of the party.

“Rahul Gandhiji wants politics of change, but the Chandigarh office-bearers list released yesterday showed it is not the politics of change, but politics of revenge. The local leaders will ruin the Chandigarh Congress,” he alleged in another Tweet.

Chhabra said: “Why those working in the party for 30-40 years have not been included in the list. Why 30 per cent women are not in the list. Though the list was approved by the central leadership, but who was the recommending authority?”

However, Bansal refused to comment on the issue, saying: “It does not merit my version.”

While, Chawla said: “99.9 per cent members who were with Chhabraji have been retained except general secretary Sandeep Bhardwaj. Is he showing his shortcomings or mine? Moreover, he should recommend the name, we can still include them. It is better to raise such issues within the party than the social media.”