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| J&K Cong leaders unwilling to accommodate new entrants | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 31: Three weeks have passed after prominent politicians have joined Congress at Delhi but the present leadership of J&K Congress appears to be hesitating to properly accommodate them.
On August 7, over 20 leaders from Aam Admni Party (AAP) and Ghulam Nabi Azad-led Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), have joined Congress in New Delhi. Among them are four former legislators and a sitting district development council member.
Almost three weeks have passed after their joining but none of these leaders were formally invited in the Congress headquarters at Sheedhi Chowk in Jammu to felicitate them.
Highly placed sources said that old guards of the party were not ready to allow these leaders to give space for these new entrants in the party.
“After get them enrolled in the party, local leadership has not contacted any of the new entrants”, a source said and added that Congress is organizing protest rallies in different parts of Jammu province against installation of the electricity smart meters and collection of toll tax at Sarore Toll Plaza but new entrants were not invited in these protests.
As reported earlier, Taranjit Singh Tony, a DDC member from Suchetgarh in the RS Pura sector, Yash Paul Kundal, former MLA from Samba, AAP’s women wing president Namrata Sharma along with hundreds of their supporters resigned from AAP while former MLC Naresh Gupta, former MLA Sopore Haji Abdul Rashid, former MLC Sham Lal Baghat, and several other leaders, who were with Ghulam Nabi Azad DPAD, quit the party and joined the J&K Pradesh Congress Party in presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
Interestingly, Samba is the epic centre of the ongoing agitation against Sarore Toll Plaza and Yash Pal Kundal is a two-time MLA from Samba. Instead of asking Yash Pal Kundal to lead the agitation, Congress leaders from Jammu reached Samba but Kundal was not invited. |
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