Rahul Gandhi To Visit Chandigarh On June 4 To Hold Key Meet With Haryana Congress Leaders

Chandigarh: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would be in Chandigarh on June 4 to hold a key meeting with senior leaders of the Haryana Congress and discuss various state party organisational issues.

According to party information, Gandhi would be accompanied by 21 Central observers who would be holding meetings with senior party leaders at state and district level as a part of the party's ongoing ``Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan’’ (organisation rejuvenation campaign).

These Central observers are: Jagdish Thakore, Manickam Tagore, Varsha Gaikwad, Amar Singh, G C Chandrasekhar, Girish Chodankar, Qazi Nizamuddin, Vijay Inder Singla, Lalji Desai, Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy, Kuljit Singh Nagra, Jai Singh Agrawal, Rafeek Khan, Bhuwan Kapri, Vinod Sultanpuri, Prakash Joshi, Manoj Chauhan, Christopher Tilak, Jagdish Jangid, Srinivas B V and Amit Vij.

Sources in the party said that Gandhi would also discuss the issues pertaining to selection of party’s district presidents and formation of party’s district level committees which have not been constituted since the past over a decade.

While it is said that he would hold meeting with the former two-time chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, state party chief Udai Bhan, working presidents including Ram Kishan Gurjar, Jitender Bhardwaj and Suresh Gupta, general secretaries Kumar Selja, also Sirsa MP, and Randeep Surjewala, who is also Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan, all the five MPs, namely, Satpal Brahmchari, Varun Mullana, Jai Prakash, Kumari Selja and Deepender Singh Hooda would also attend this meeting.

However, while it was not yet clear if all the 37 party MLAs would be called for the meeting, it was said that the state party affairs in-charge B K Hariprasad has been asked to separately call other leaders including legislators and former ministers and other senior leaders.

It may be recalled that the said meeting was earlier scheduled to be held on June 1 which has now been rescheduled for June 4.