Renu Jogi, senior Congress leader and wife of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, has stayed away from a crucial ongoing Rs shivir’ of the Congress party at her bastion and family hometown at Pendra in vast Bilaspur division.
The move of Renu Jogi, who was deputy leader of the Opposition in state assembly till recently, has come as a total surprise for the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Bhupesh Baghel though he downplayed the issue.
When asked, Baghel while commenting on the issue, told reporters, Rs Rs Congress is a big political party and it doesn’t matter if someone is absent from its programme. The Rs shivir’ underway as per schedule and without any disruption,’’.
While responding to a separate question, the PCC chief Baghel lashed out at Chief Minister Raman Singh for Rs lack of development in the state’. He reiterated that the Raman Singh had not been accepting his challenge to find out ‘Bird of development’ (Vikas Ki Chidia) in the state.