Disst. Congress chief of Mandi resigns, alleges interference and ill treatment

Disst. Congress chief of Mandi resign, alleges interference and ill treatment

Shimla, Feb 16,

The District Congress Committee Chief of Mandi and former Virbhadra Singh government minister, Prakash Chaudhary, has left the Congress, leaving the grand old party in a lurch at a time when it needs to strengthen itself with only one MLA in the district and Lok Sabha polls looming ahead. Chaudhary decided to quit the party after a spat with the Deputy Mayor of Mandi and alleged excessive interference of APMC Chairman Sanjeev Guleria in his home assembly constituency.

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He stated in a Facebook post last evening that he tendered his resignation after expressing displeasure with ill-treatment towards him and alleged that he was overlooked, thus leaving the Congress Party out of pain.

Presenting his version, Sanjeev Guleria stated that Prakash Chaudhary accused him of interfering in his home constituency, but as a dedicated party worker, he works at the grassroots level and did not join the party through parachuting. “A person belonging to the open category can never contest elections from a reserved area. Therefore, the allegations made by Prakash Chaudhary are baseless.”

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It is worth mentioning that Chaudhary had a spat with the Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Corporation Mandi during a State-level Republic Day function and later left the event as Prakash Chaudhary occupied his chair on the dais. The altercation happened when the former minister occupied the chair of BJP Deputy Mayor Madhuri.

BJP won nine assembly seats from Mandi district out of ten seats, and Congress had only one. Congress won the Mandi by-election in 2021, but the grand old party would have a testing time ahead if it does not take damage control measures.

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