Congress workers fume over high command’s attitude for ignoring anti party activities of sitting MP
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Former External Affairs Minister and Member Parliament from Patiala Preneet Kaur hoisted the National Flag at Patiala’s Mahatma Gandhi Statue on the occasion of India’s 76th Independence Day, in the presence of local BJP, Punjab Lok Congress, an ally of Bhartiya Janta party, leaders and workers . During the ceremony,the local Congress leadership remained conspicuous by their absence.
As per available information, Preneet Kaur was accompanied by various Punjab Lok Congress (an ally of BJP) and BJP leaders from Patiala including KK Malhotra, KK Sharma, SS Ghuman, Sanjeev Bittu, Anil Mangla, Narinder Sehgal, Sachin Sharma, Surinder Walia, Harmesh Goyal, Hardev Balli, Professor Sameer Seera, Harinder Kohli, Vijay Kukka, Kamlesh Malhotra, Shami Denter, Manjeev Kalika, Harish Kapoor, Sandeep Malhotra, Nand Lal Gurba, Sonu Sangar, Nathu Ram, Roop Kumar, Sanjay Sharma, Happy Sharma, Bunty Sehgal, Vikram Goldie, Gopi Rangeela, Rama Puri, Rakhi Mangat, Rajeev Sharma, Nirmal Dakala, Sahil, Lakhwinder, Poni, Labh Singh, Kehar Singh, Balwinder Grewal, Harbhajan Lachkani, Anuj Khosla, Nikhil Kala, Rakesh Bidla, Manisha Uppal, Kiran Makar, lovely Arora, Suman Jain, Asha Devi, Bhupinder Kaur, Bimla Sharma, Rajeev Bhardwaj, Vicky Arora, Sanjeev Sharma, Lucky Sodhi, Ganesh, Harmeet Thakral, Tony Bindra, Donny, Ved Prakash, Rohit Jalota, Rajneesh Pandhi, Manohar Mehra, Joginder etc. No local congress leader accompanied her during the Independence Day function.
Even, on August 13, 2022, Preneet kaur, Congress MP had chaired a meeting with the senior leaders and workers of Patiala district in which Congress leaders remained conspicuous by their absence. In that meeting, Punjab Lok Congress, BJP leaders amongst others attended the meeting.
“Local congress leaders, workers are feeling dejected with their high command’s attitude” said a congress leader on the condition of anonymity. He further added that “ the main reason for congress workers, leaders demoralization is the behavior of the congress president, high command with respect to Preneet Kaur’s case. Despite the show cause notice issued to her, the high command fails to take any disciplinary action against her for her anti party activities. She is openly doing anti party activities from the last around ten months. Whereas, the party high command takes immediate action against Sunil Jakhar and other party leaders for anti party activities. Patiala, once a strong hold of Congress is now facing its survival issue. Moreover the local congress leadership is also directionless. One group of Congress workers/ leaders is following Raja Warring, one is following Brahm Mohindra and one is supporting Navjot Singh Sidhu.
He further added that “ She had openly supported, campaigned for opposition leaders and went against the party candidate in the assembly elections, held in February 2022. The high command openly ignored her anti-party activities. The behavior of party high command and senior leaders towards Patiala congress workers are highly condemnable. They just add salt on their wounds.”
Congress workers fume over high command’s attitude for ignoring anti party activities of sitting MP . When contacted the Congress Punjab Incharge, Harish Chaudhary, he said “we are in the process of taking decision about our sitting member parliament from Patiala, Preneet Kaur. We will take it at the earliest.”
August 16,2022
