Through PTI
DEHRADUN: A gathering between Uttarakhand Leader Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and previous chief of opposition within the state Meeting Pritam Singh has induced the idea of the Congress chief switching his allegiance to the ruling BJP within the close to long run.
The assembly that came about on the leader minister’s place of abode past due on Sunday evening assumed importance because it got here shut at the heels of the Congress revamping its state unit wherein Singh, a five-time MLA from Chakrata, was once it sounds as if sidelined by means of the birthday celebration management.
Alternatively, when contacted, Singh disregarded the idea.
Singh, who has held key positions like that of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president from 2017 to 2021 and the chief of opposition within the Meeting after the demise of Indira Hridayesh final yr, has now not been assigned any main organisational accountability in the most recent revamp of the birthday celebration’s state unit.
Karan Mahra, who is claimed to be on the subject of former leader minister and Singh’s bete noire Harish Rawat, has been made the PCC leader, senior birthday celebration chief and Bajpur MLA Yashpal Arya has been appointed because the chief of opposition and Bhuwan Chandra Kapri, who defeated Dhami within the recently-held state Meeting polls from Khatima, is the deputy chief of opposition.
Arya has held the posts of PCC president up to now. He’s additionally a former speaker of the Meeting.
The Uttarakhand Congress has lengthy been divided into two factions — one led by means of Rawat and the opposite by means of Singh.
Because the Congress seems for elements that can have ended in its failure to wrest energy from the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) in Uttarakhand, factionalism has emerged as a conceivable explanation why its efficiency fell some distance in need of the expectancies.
Congress’s ballot observers Avinash Pandey and Devender Yadav ready a file currently, attributing the birthday celebration’s ballot debacle in Uttarakhand to variations amongst its state leaders.
Singh expressed his harm on being accused of factionalism within the file, however refused to mention anything else on his assembly with the executive minister.