After bickering, Congress puts up united face in Uttarakhand

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 3

The Congress on Monday launched its poll campaign song for the upcoming Uttarakhand elections and said people would be the face of the party in the elections.

“People of Uttarakhand will be the face of the Congress in the elections and people have made up their minds to change the incumbent BJP government,” former Uttarakhand CM and Congress campaign chairman for state elections Harish Rawat said days after signaling a rebellion.

Putting up a united front on Monday, Rawat, AICC state incharge Devendra Yadav, state unit president Ganesh Godiyal and veteran leader Pritam Singh attacked the BJP government for appointing three Chief Ministers in five years (Trivendra Singh Rawat, Tirath Singh Rawat and Pushkar Singh Dhami).

The united front at the AICC headquarters came close on the heels of intra-party rivalries. It took a meeting with former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to placate Rawat who had previously declared on Twitter that he had had enough.

Today, he described people as the party’s face in Uttarakhand, toeing Rahul Gandhi’s line of collective leadership.

The Congress also said it had not decided on the one family one ticket rule, something Punjab Congress had done. Meanwhile, Godiyal denied having said the Uttarakhand Congress was against the rule of one ticket for one family.

Earlier, the Congress released its campaign song with a punchline “Teen Tigada Kaam Bigada Uttrakhand mein nahi aayegi ab Bhajpa dobara”.

Three leaders join Congress

Anant Chauhan, working president of AAP, Uttarkashi’s sitting zila panchayat head Deepak Gujran and former BJP MLA Mal Chand have joined the Congress.

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