Infighting in Haryana Congress reached the doorstep of party president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday with former PCC chief Ashok Tanwar and his supporters protesting At the AICC headquarters and 10 Janpath alleging corruption in distribution of tickets for the October 21 assembly polls.
As his supporters raised slogans against Bhupender Singh Hooda, Tanwar alleged that tickets were being distributed on whims and fancies and were being "sold", ignoring those who had worked for years. Earlier, Hooda had openly come out against Tanwar, who is known to be close to Rahul Gandhi and had been state unit chief since 2014.
To end factionalism in the party ahead of assembly polls in Haryana, the Congress named Kumari Selja as chief of its state unit, replacing Tanwar, and appointed Hooda as chairperson of the election management committee.
Tanwar's remarks came ahead of the release of the list of nominees by the party for the Assembly polls. Hooda's supporters have claimed that the situation in the Congress worsened in Haryana due to Tanwar and he is blaming the former chief minister as he is upset at being removed from his post. Congress president Sonia Gandhi had appointed Hooda the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader, and by virtue of that leader of opposition in the state assembly.