Another ‘snub’ for Bhupinder Hooda, loyalist Udai Bhan, find no place in Congress Delhi star campaigner list

Claiming that the radical of Delhi consciousness improvement took spot lone during the Congress’ tenure with Sheila Dikshit arsenic CM, Hooda told mediapersons connected Monday, “This time, the radical of Delhi are looking towards the Congress with anticipation arsenic they person seen the tenures of some the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).”

The “snub” is the latest setback for the leaders pursuing the party’s daze nonaccomplishment successful past year’s Assembly polls and comes weeks aft All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput in-charge Dipak Babaria withheld a database of territory presidents – bulk from the Hooda campy – appointed by Bhan, citing “procedural lapses”. “I judge discussions with definite sections of the authorities enactment were not held earlier releasing the list,” Babaria had earlier told The Indian Express.

Another crushed being attributed to the duo being near retired is the Congress’s mediocre Assembly canvass show successful 4 districts – Faridabad, Gurgaon, Sonipat and Jhajjar – which stock a borderline with Delhi, wherever the enactment won lone 5 (Prithla successful Faridabad district, Baroda successful Sonipat district, and Jhajjar, Beri and Badli successful Jhajjar district) of the 20 seats. Bhan himself mislaid from the SC-reserved Hodal spot successful Palwal district.

While Hooda did not find a spot successful the list, his lad and Lok Sabha MP Deepender Hooda on with different salient leaders from the authorities similar Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala and Ambala MP Kumari Selja person made the cut.

Hooda is besides seemingly facing the vigor from different quarters. Even 100 days aft the BJP formed its grounds 3rd consecutive authorities successful the state, the Congress is yet to finalise its legislature enactment leader, who volition spell connected to go the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) successful the Assembly, a station Hooda held betwixt 2014 and 2019. While Hooda continues to inhabit the LoP’s seat successful the Assembly and refuses to vacate his authoritative bungalow, Assembly sessions person continued without immoderate Congress MLA being appointed to the post.

The erstwhile CM’s associates assertion astir MLAs are connected their broadside and are optimistic that the precocious bid “should not” and “will not” disregard Hooda. But sources indicated to The Indian Express that the Congress is “aware of the reasons that led to the Assembly canvass loss”. “The determination (regarding the LoP) volition yet beryllium taken. Had Hooda been the precocious command’s choice, his sanction would person been announced by now. The hold (in announcing the name) is indicative that idiosyncratic other is apt to beryllium preferred,” a root said.

The Congress’s “over-reliance” connected Hooda, seen to beryllium party’s Jat face, successful the run-up to and during past year’s Assembly polls on with the interior factional rift were dubbed arsenic cardinal reasons for the party’s loss.

Bhan, connected the different hand, said the Congress MLAs had authorised the precocious bid to instrumentality the last determination connected the LoP pick. “The enactment had appointed 4 observers who spoke to each MLAs individually… It is for the precocious bid to present denote who volition beryllium the CLP person successful the state,” helium said.