Rahul brings infighting Haryana Congress factions on one platform

As the Haryana assembly elections are drawing closer, the infighting between the two factions of Congress could be seen brimming to the surface. Haryana Congress is well known to have two warring factions, one led by former chief minister (CM) Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the other by Lok Sabha Member (MP) Kumari Selja. However, Randeep Singh Surjewala and former union minister Birender Singh was considered a part of Selja's faction. The Selja faction is known as “SRB” (Selja, Randeep, and Birender) in Haryana politics. The party's Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala has asserted that the central leadership would decide who the Chief Minister would be if the party won the October 5 polls. “Who will become the CM? Everyone aspires to become a chief minister,” Surjewala told reporters in Kaithal. “(Sirsa MP Kumari) Seljaji also wants to be one, why not? She is my elder sister. Chaudhary Bhupinder Singh Hooda would also like to be the CM. Besides the three of us, some other party workers can also have this aspiration. But, the final decision will be taken by Rahul Gandhi ji and Mallikarjun Khargeji. They will decide and whatever decision they take will be acceptable to all of us,” Surjewala added. Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi's first election rally in Haryana brought the two key warring factions in the state unit together on one common platform in Karnal, following which sulking Sirsa MP Kumari Selja began electioneering. Selja and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda shared the stage at the election rally in Karnal's Assand area. (IPA Service)