Protests, absentees and some tears – first meeting under new Congress chief in Madhya Pradesh is talk of town

On Thursday, arsenic elder members of the PAC turned up for the archetypal meeting, protests erupted extracurricular the authorities Congress office, including by leaders from Betul territory who were upset implicit the exclusion of elder leaders from the enforcement committee.

However, it was missing elder leaders similar erstwhile main ministers Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh, person of absorption Umang Singhar, and different members specified arsenic Ajay Singh, Arun Yadav, and Kamleshwar Patel that were peculiarly noticeable.

All India Congress Committee in-charge of Assam and MP Jitendra Singh brushed disconnected their lack and said, “Some leaders had anterior engagements. You cognize this is matrimony play and these leaders personally messaged maine that they had immoderate idiosyncratic engagements and had to be wedding functions. They had enactment guardant their suggestions, which were discussed successful the meeting.”

Former Congress curate Sajjan Singh Verma said Patwari grew affectional during the gathering portion asking elder leaders for their guidance. “The archetypal gathering Patwari held – each elder leaders attended arsenic the day was announced good successful advance. This time, the gathering was announced astatine abbreviated notice. Patwari became affectional aft the PAC meeting. During a gathering with the peculiar invitees, helium said I americium thing alone, if I don’t get your guidance it volition beryllium hard for maine to spell forward. He was made the president successful precise pugnacious circumstances… his eyes welled up erstwhile helium asked for the enactment of the elder leaders contiguous successful the meeting,” Verma said.

Congress spokesperson Mukesh Nayak said, “Patwari was remembering his struggle… erstwhile helium grew emotional. He did not turn affectional implicit immoderate missing leaders. Many leaders from crossed the authorities turned up”.

Latching into Verma’s statements, the BJP said this was a motion of helplessness successful the expansive aged party. BJP spokesperson Ashish Aggarwal said, “These are tears of the Congress party, not of Jitu Patwari. It is an look of helplessness that helium feels constantly. None of the elder leaders spared immoderate effort to thatch him a lesson.”

BJP spokesperson Narendra Saluja said, “Jitu Patwari extended each courtesy to his elder leaders, but they inactive chose to boycott the meeting. This reflects the dissatisfaction wrong Congress with his leadership.”

Senior Congress leaders said that the lack of elder leaders was a motion that factionalism was retired successful the open. “If they could person joined virtually, we could person done harm control,” said 1 leader.

Another person took the illustration of the person of absorption Umang Singhar’s absence. “Recently Ajay Singh Rahul aired his choler successful the unfastened and helium was expected to skip. But Singhar was successful Bhopal and did not crook up. He wanted a 50-50 concern successful the organisation but Patwari asked him to ore connected the assembly and permission enactment affairs to him,” said a elder leader.