With Haryana going to polls in October, the Congress on Saturday constituted committees to accommodate all its important leaders so that the faction-ridden party could show a united face in the polls.
Several senior leaders quit the party in the recent past protesting against the functioning of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Yadav. This has led to a crisis of sorts in the party.
In a balancing act, Ajay Yadav, who had resigned from Hooda Government sometime back but later withdrew it, was today made chairman of the campaign committee while former Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal was appointed as chairman of the publicity committee.
The campaign committee has senior leader Kiran Chaudhary as its co-convener and Dilu Ram Bazigar as convenor.
Chief Minister Hooda, PCC Chief Ashok Tanwar, former Union Minister Kumari Selja, former PCC Chief Phool Chand Mullana, lone party MP in lok Sabha from Haryana Deepender Singh Hooda, Shadi lal Batra, Shruti Chaudhary, AICC spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala and Jindal were among the 40 members of the Haryana Pradesh Election Campaign Committee announced by the central leadership in New Delhi on Saturday.
The Haryana Pradesh Publicity and Publication Committee headed by Jindal has Ajay Sharma as convener and seven other members including Deepender Hooda.
Ajay Yadav had also announced his resignation from the Hooda Ministry but was made to withdraw it after leadership’s intervention, which resolved the “minor issues”. While Deepender Hooda, son of the Chief Minister, has been represented in both the committees, known detractors of Bhupinder Singh Hooda have also been accommodated.
The leadership has some time back ruled out the change of guard in the State amid demands from a section of State leaders that the party should not fight the next polls under his leadership.