The supporters of former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, MLA and leader of the State Congress Committee, are demanding the removal of Kumari Selja from the post. They want to see their leader Hooda in a bigger role. On Tuesday, 19 MLAs met Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal.
Earlier on Friday, the MLAs had a meeting with the party's Haryana in- charge Vivek Bansal in Delhi . Congress sources said that the MLAs are looking for a strong leadership in the state. They are demanding the removal of Kumari Selja and asking to give big responsibility to Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
The MLAs said that they are being ignored by the organization along with Kumari Selja. They also raised the issue that the party does not have a district unit chief for the last 8 years, which is making it difficult for the party to expand its grassroots level.
Kumari Selja did not give importance to the meeting saying that the MLAs can meet the party in-charge at any time. "I don't see any indiscipline if the MLAs go and meet the party's state unit in-charge and say something," she said. "This is their right", she added. Bansal later clarified the meeting's agenda.
Congress sources said that most of the 19 MLAs who attended the meeting held on Thursday with the party's state in-charge Vivek Bansal demanded a change of leadership in the state and urged Hooda to take over the command of the state Congress. Currently, Hooda is the leader of the legislature party. Congress has 31 MLAs in Haryana.
In this whole matter, supporters of Kumari Selja say that after the release of former Chief Minister and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Omprakash Chautala from jail, Hooda is trying to increase its activism so as to maintain the hold among the Jat community.