Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 24: The replacement of Rajya Sabha Member Rajni Patil as AICC incharge of the highly sensitive Jammu and Kashmir has authenticated the report of the Early Times.
This newspaper has reported in its September 24 edition that Rajni Patil would be replaced as AICC incharge of J&K Congress due to her failure to check factionalism the J&K unit despite resignations of all supporters of Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Important to mention here that on Saturday Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge assigned the charge of several States and UTs to the new members /general secretaries while relieving Priyanka Gandhi Wadra from the charge of the party in Uttar Pradesh.
Bharat Singh Solanki has been assigned the charge of Jammu and Kashmir. He replaced AICC general secretary Rajni Patil.
Former JKPCC president and Member Congress Working Committee (CWC) from J&K, Ghulam Ahmed Mir has been assigned the charge of Jharkhand and the additional charge of West Bengal.
Rajni Patil was appointed as incharge of the J&K unit of the party in September 2020 replacing all- Early Times Report vindicated
As reported earlier, Rajni Patil, who is a Rajya Sabha member, is also not interested in continuing as incharge of J&K Congress because she is more interested in the politics of her home state of Maharashtra.
Patil is known as a trusted aide of the Gandhi family and to be close to former Congress president Sonia Gandhi. However, notwithstanding her high profile in Delhi, her involvement in the politics of her home state Maharashtra is negligible.
Born in western Maharashtra’s Sangli district in 1958, she shifted to Beed in Marathwada after she married former Maharashtra minister of state Ashok Patil. Daughter of freedom fighter Atmaram Patil, she was also known as a foster daughter of former Maharashtra CM, late Vasantdada Patil.
In the 1996 Lok Sabha elections, she sought a ticket from the party but was denied. Enraged over the party’s decision, she joined the BJP, contested from Beed, and won. She however did not last long in the BJP and returned to the Congress in 1998. | 