On the one hand, the opposition parties are uniting to take on the NDA. On the other hand, some parties are not able to overcome their internal strife. Efforts to revive the Congress organization in Haryana, which has been weakened for 9 years, seem to be suffering from factionalism. Bhupendra Singh Hooda faction and Kumari Selja and Randeep Surjewala faction are facing each other. In Karnal, activists of both groups were seen shouting slogans against each other. A complaint has been made to party president Mallikarjun Kharge.
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District Congress meeting was going on in Karnal in the presence of State Observer. In which fights started between Hudda supporters, Shailja supporters and Surjewala supporters.
Assembly elections in Haryana next year
Elections are due in Haryana next year and before that Congress is trying to strengthen its organization. State Congress chief Deepak Bawria sent observers to help appoint district presidents, but in most districts Shailja and Surjewala supporters are clashing with Bhupendra Singh Hooda supporters over who should be president. The matter escalated to such an extent that Shailja and Surjewala approached the Congress president with their complaint.
In fact, the anti-Huda camp feels that the entire command of the state has been handed over to Bhupendra Singh Hooda and his son Dipendra Singh Hooda. Even when Udaybhan was appointed as the state president, the same was assumed because Udaybhan is close to Hooda. Now Selja and Surjewala do not like the preference given to people close to HUDA in the appointment of district heads.
The Congress organization in Haryana has been in a weak position for years. No work was done to strengthen it during the tenure of several previous regional presidents. Hooda has been dominant in the state Congress, but now that efforts are underway to reorganize the organization at the district level, Selja and Surjewala also want their influence.
Hooda has a stronger hold on workers than Surjewala.
In fact, Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, along with Kumari Selja, wants to dominate the party in the state, but at the ground level they lag behind former chief minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda in terms of popularity and hold among workers. Surjewala also lost badly in the Jind Assembly by-election nearly four years ago; He was ranked third. However, he is considered very close to Rahul Gandhi.