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  • Ex-Uttarakhand Congress leader’s son resigns from PCC, says senior chief must be accommodated

    Via PTI

    DEHRADUN: Former Uttarakhand Congress president Pritam Singh’s son Abhishek Singh has resigned as a member of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC), pronouncing a number of senior birthday celebration staff with a mass make stronger base have been disregarded of it within the fresh rejig.

    In his letter to the state Congress president on Monday, Abhishek Singh demanded {that a} senior chief must be accommodated as a substitute, however stated he’s going to proceed to serve the birthday celebration.

    The brand new listing of PCC individuals were issued via the birthday celebration simply a few days in the past.

    Although he expressed his gratitude to the birthday celebration management for giving him a spot within the committee, Singh stated there’s resentment amongst senior and hardworking birthday celebration staff for being disregarded of the listing.

    “The Congress must be more potent to beef up the fingers of Sonia ji and Rahul ji,” he stated.

    Alternatively, Abhishek Singh stated like his grandfather Gulab Singh and father Pritam Singh, he would proceed to paintings for the Congress.

    Pritam Singh, who represents Chakrata seat within the Meeting, used to be the PCC president from 2017-2021.

    He used to be additionally made the Chief of Opposition within the Area after the loss of life of Indira Hridayesh.

    DEHRADUN: Former Uttarakhand Congress president Pritam Singh’s son Abhishek Singh has resigned as a member of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC), pronouncing a number of senior birthday celebration staff with a mass make stronger base have been disregarded of it within the fresh rejig.

    In his letter to the state Congress president on Monday, Abhishek Singh demanded {that a} senior chief must be accommodated as a substitute, however stated he’s going to proceed to serve the birthday celebration.

    The brand new listing of PCC individuals were issued via the birthday celebration simply a few days in the past.

    Although he expressed his gratitude to the birthday celebration management for giving him a spot within the committee, Singh stated there’s resentment amongst senior and hardworking birthday celebration staff for being disregarded of the listing.

    “The Congress must be more potent to beef up the fingers of Sonia ji and Rahul ji,” he stated.

    Alternatively, Abhishek Singh stated like his grandfather Gulab Singh and father Pritam Singh, he would proceed to paintings for the Congress.

    Pritam Singh, who represents Chakrata seat within the Meeting, used to be the PCC president from 2017-2021.

    He used to be additionally made the Chief of Opposition within the Area after the loss of life of Indira Hridayesh.

  • Congress MLA Pritam Singh seeks FIR towards information portals for wearing deceptive information 

    Through PTI

    DEHRADUN: Senior Congress chief and Chakrata MLA Pritam Singh on Monday sought an FIR and felony motion towards 3 information portals for wearing a deceptive record pointing out that he had resigned.

    Naming the scoop portals in a letter to SSP Dehradun, Singh mentioned the deceptive information that he had resigned used to be run on Sunday conspiratorially with out affirmation and with an goal to tarnish his symbol.

    Singh who went to the SSP’s place of work with a delegation of birthday celebration leaders handy over the letter to him individually, asked the SSP to hotel an FIR towards the house owners and editors of the scoop portals and begin suitable felony motion towards them for seeking to harm his symbol and inflicting him psychological tension.

    Previous, at a joint press convention with PCC president Karan Mahra, Singh spoke towards the scoop portals for wearing this type of deceptive piece of reports with out confirming it.

    Singh mentioned he has been elected MLA for the 6th time, his father Gulab Singh used to be additionally an eight-time MLA and he’s going to serve the Congress so long as he can.

    Singh who used to be previously PCC president and likewise Chief of Opposition in Uttarakhand Meeting used to be now not given any place this time within the Congress when the birthday celebration’s state unit used to be remodeled previous this month.

    He’s mentioned to had been sulking ever since he used to be accused of “factionalism” in a record having a look into the standards that had resulted in the Congress’ defeat within the fresh meeting polls.

    The record have been ready by way of the birthday celebration’s central observers for Uttarakhand.

    PCC president Karan Mahra who used to be additionally provide on the press convention mentioned Pritam Singh have been accused of indulging in factional politics however he had now not been heard.

    “There will probably be a gathering between Singh and the birthday celebration prime command at a suitable time and the whole lot will probably be resolved,” Mahra mentioned.

  • Congress chief’s Sunday evening assembly with Dhami fuels hypothesis

    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.

  • Pritam Singh vs Harish Rawat: Congress faces faction struggle in Uttarakhand

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    DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand unit of Indian Nationwide Congress after dropping state meeting elections to rival Bhartiya Janta Birthday party isn’t in a position to take care of factionalism throughout the birthday party. 

    The 2 groups- one favoring Pritam Singh and some other former Leader Minister Harish Rawat are in tussle to get the location of chief of opposition within the state meeting the place Congress has 18 of the 70 seats whilst the BJP has general 47 MLAs.

    “Rawat ji is senior however his efficiency in those elections were disastrous. He misplaced himself through memore than 17500 votes. Then again, birthday party’s efficiency has progressed rather. However the second one line up of the leaders are not looking for him to proceed in energetic politics sabotaging their potentialities,” mentioned a birthday party insider. 

    On Monday, state in fee for the birthday party Devendra Yadav had a gathering with keep leaders together with Pritam Singh and Harish Rawat to make a decision on chief of opposition within the state meeting. 

    Few months previous to state meeting elections Singh used to be made chief of opposition getting rid of him from the location of state birthday party President.

    Previous, Dr Indira Hridayesh held the location who used to be Congress MLA from Haldwani and died in June final yr. 

    The transfer used to be noticed as diminishing Singh’s position as determination maker within the upcoming elections through Harish Rawat and putting in his applicants on key positions akin to state birthday party president. 

    With Rawat dropping some other meeting elections, political occupation of the senior Congress chief is at stake, mentioned political analysts including that the birthday party has carried out higher than 2017 elections and this will have to be used to create and advertise 2d line up of the state leaders for long run political potentialities. 

    Then again, many nonetheless imagine that the birthday party used to be in a position to upward thrust from 11 seats to 18 seats on account of Rawat’s dangle on other people.

    Rawat used to be defeated through Bhartiya Janta Birthday party candidate in Lalkuwa through greater than 17500 votes. In 2017 state meeting elections he misplaced from two seats he contested. 

    Now whispers are doing rounds that Rawat will have to be refrained from through the prime command to make manner for the second one line up of the leaders.

    After he misplaced from Kiccha and Haridwar Rural seats in 2017 many had touted that his political occupation used to be over.

    Come 2022, he was indispensable for the Congress birthday party in Uttarakhand and the birthday party contested underneath his identify.