Lucknow: Presently the election of the brand new Nationwide President of Congress is within the headlines. There may be hypothesis about nomination or balloting in political circles. An enchanting incident of the election of the President of Congress itself is from Uttar Pradesh which came about within the 60s. At the moment outgoing Leader Minister Chandrabhanu Gupta had misplaced even after ‘profitable’ the election for the submit of UP Congress President. It is about 1964. The president of the UP unit of Congress was once to be elected. Chandrabhanu Gupta felt that as promised, the Congress top command would ask him to take over the submit of Congress President once more.
In 1960, Chandrabhanu Gupta additionally received the election of the state president with an enormous vote. When he didn’t get any sign from the management, he once more made up our minds to contest for the submit of President. The top command didn’t like this and signaled Kamlapati Tripathi to contest the election. Kamalapati Tripathi was once at the moment the Finance Minister within the govt headed via Sucheta Kriplani within the state. Chandrabhanu Gupta has additionally written in his autobiography ‘Safar Kahin Ruka Nahi, Jhuka Nahi’ that within the balloting hung on 12 Would possibly 1964, Chandrabhanu were given 318 votes and Kamalapati were given 311 votes. Chandrabhanu received the election via 7 votes. The bewildered fighters complained to the central management that there have been disturbances within the election.
Congress nationwide president Kamaraj declared invalid the votes of the ones Congressmen who have been govt quota holders since 1961. Gulzari Lal Nanda, particular of PM Jawaharlal Nehru, was once entrusted with the duty of resolving the dispute. In line with Nanda’s file, Chandrabhanu’s votes have been diminished to 307 and Kamalapati’s to 310 or even after ‘profitable’, Chandrabhanu misplaced the election via 3 votes. Chandrabhanu’s grievance got here that about 150 votes have been solid that have been now not legitimate, however his grievance had no impact.
