With former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda deciding to launch the campaign for the Haryana assembly elections through a rally on August 18, the photographs of the Gandhi family are conspicuously missing from the posters.
The “show of strength” is being organised in their hometown Rohtak and is being billed as the launch of the election campaign ahead of the October Assembly elections in the state.
The posters and banners carry only the photographs of the father-son Hooda duo—Bhupinder and Deepinder Hooda.
Hooda senior is expected to start his election campaign at the August 18 ‘Parivartan Maha Rally’. “
As many as 12 Congress legislators have been demanding removal of state party chief Ashok Tanwar and handing over of the party’s reins to either of the Hoodas in the runup to the Assembly elections, slated in October.
Asked last week about the demand for change in the state leadership, Hooda senior said his supporters had sent a resolution to the Congress high command. Now it’s their call on the issue, he added. Former two-time Chief Minister and his son faced a humiliating defeat in the last Lok Sabha elections from Sonipat and Rohtak seats, respectively.