Ahead of monsoon session, Congress remains indecisive about CLP leader
Haryana assembly is scheduled to convene for the monsoon session from Aug 22. This will be the third session of the current House in which the main opposition party, the Congress, will remain without a leader.
The party has also not announced district and state-level executives so far. The issue remains unresolved for over a decade now. During this period, Haryana witnessed three Lok Sabha and three assembly elections.
Except for the AICC-nominated state presidents and their handful of executives, there was no district or block executive on the ground.
While the party had failed to garner sufficient numbers in the 2014 assembly elections for the appointment of the leader of opposition,
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
held the post between 2019 and 2024. In the current session of the assembly, despite having 37 MLAs, the Congress has not been able to name the leader of the opposition.
Similarly, the party has also failed to announce the district-level executives. According to senior AICC leaders, including B K Hariparsad – party general secretary and in charge of Haryana, the district congress committees were supposed to be declared by July 31. Same was the case for the announcement of the state Congress president and the CLP leader.
Surprisingly, the delay in announcements is despite the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi, giving clear directions in June to ensure the completion of the process by the first week of July.
"We have completed the entire process and the district Congress committee lists will be out any day during this week. This will be followed by a decision on the CLP leader and other office bearers," said Hariparsad.
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