New Delhi: Former chief of Haryana Congress Ashok Tanwar has decided to boycott the party election committee meeting, scheduled here on Thursday, to decide on candidates for the Assembly elections.
An upset Tanwar, replaced by Kumari Selja as state party chief recently, told IANS here on Wednesday he would not attend the meeting called by his successor and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as “many” in the election committee were “against” him.
“I will not attend the meeting as many in the committee are not happy with me. They have been against me since the last five years,” he said, highlighting the divisions in the party unit.
The 90-member Assembly will go to polls on October 21.
When asked whether he would be campaigning for the Congress, Tanwar said he was campaigning for the party.
However, Tanwar supporters said he was miffed at his removal from the post on September 4 and would start his parallel campaign and be working on assignments given to him.
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