Congress drops Ghulam Nabi Azad and Manish Tewari from star campaigner checklist in Punjab

The Congress has dropped its outstanding members of G-23, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Manish Tewari from the checklist of star campaigners it issued on February 4 forward of the Punjab Assembly Elections. This has carried out something however indicated the inner rift of the Congress social gathering in India.
The checklist consists of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel and lots of extra Congress leaders from totally different states however doesn’t embody senior chief Ghulam Nabi Azad and Lok Sabha MP from the state Manish Tewari.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Manish Tewari not in Congress checklist of star campaigners for #PunjabAssemblyElections2022 @DeccanHerald pic.twitter.com/YTnhTh2iWR— Shemin (@shemin_joy) February 4, 2022
Azad and Tewari, the members of Congress G-23 had questioned the management in Congress and written to Sonia Gandhi looking for an overhaul in view of the frequent failures of the social gathering. In August 2020, the letter had demanded speedy and lively management and to rearrange the organisational construction of the social gathering.
Ghulam Nabi Azad has just lately been conferred with Padma Bhushan by the Modi authorities. But the social gathering appears to have taken the stand as Azad continues to defy Congress’ stand on a number of events.
Manish Tewari in the meantime has sarcastically censured the Congress’ determination saying that the explanations of his exclusion aren’t any extra secret. “I would have been pleasantly surprised if it would have been the other way around. The reasons are also no state secret”, he mentioned.
I’d have been pleasantly shocked if it might have been the opposite approach round. The causes are additionally no state secret 🤪https://t.co/fYBScKBRYY— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) February 5, 2022
The core a part of concern varieties relating to exclusion of Manish Tewari, the Hindu face who has received from the Anandpur Sahib seat. While there are round 40 per cent of Hindus within the state, earlier one other Hindu face of the social gathering Sunil Jakhar, was additionally sidelined for the submit of Chief Minister regardless of having the assist of 42 MLAs.
Jakhar had complained that he was not thought-about throughout change of guard after Captain Amarinder Singh stepped down in September final 12 months, solely as a result of he was a Hindu. However, Jakhar sees himself within the checklist of star campaigners for Punjab polls right now.
The 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly elections are scheduled to be held on February 20 to elect the 117 members of the sixteenth Assembly. The votes shall be counted and the outcomes shall be declared on March 10.