With Haryana assembly election's coming closer, the infighting between the two factions of Congress is quite evident. Haryana Congress is well known for having two warring factions; one led by former chief minister (CM) Bhupinder Singh Hooda and and the other by Lok Sabha Member (MP) Kumari Selja. However, Randeep Singh Surjewala and former union minister Birender Singh were considered a part of Selja's faction. The Selja faction is known as “SRB” (Selja, Randeep, and Birender) in Haryana politics. On one hand, Kumari Selja supporters see her as the chief ministerial candidate. On the other hand, Hooda camp has already pitched Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the pre-poll chief ministerial candidate. Hooda and Uday Bhan, along with the state party affairs in-charge Deepak Babaria, are seen together, which has angered the other faction. Kumari Selja has accused Deepak Babaria of being inclined toward the Bhupinder Hooda camp and ignoring the other leaders. Meanwhile, Hooda on Tuesday asserted that he is neither tired, nor retired but said the Congress high command would take a call on who would be the chief minister after Congress manages to get a majority in the assembly elections. Hooda, 76, also dismissed talk of factionalism in the party's Haryana unit, asserting that “matbhedhotehain…manbhednahihain (there could be difference of opinion… but no dissension).”
