New Delhi: As dissent brews in the Congress’ Uttarakhand unit, former chief minister Harish Rawat along with other senior state leaders will meet the party high command in the national capital on Friday.
Rawat will be accompanied by Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Pritam Singh, party’s Uttarakhand chief Ganesh Godiyal and former minister Yashpal Arya to Delhi, ANI reported.
The meeting assumes significance as Rawat earlier on Wednesday in a series of cryptic tweets expressed strong displeasure over the state of affairs in the party.
“Isn’t it strange, one has to swim in the sea in the form of the forthcoming electoral battle, the organisational structure instead of cooperation is turning its face away at most places or is playing a negative role,” Rawat tweeted in Hindi.
Expressing anguish at the factionalism in the Congress’ Uttarakhand unit, Rawat said the thought that it is enough now and it’s time to rest has been crossing his mind.
“There are many crocodiles of the ruling dispensation. On whose directions one has to swim, their nominees are tying my hands and feet,” Rawat, a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), wrote on the micro-blogging platform.
“And then quietly in a corner of my mind, a voice is erupting ‘na denyam, na palaynam’ (one who does not bow or flee). Perhaps the new year will show the way. I have faith that Lord Kedarnath will provide me guidance in this situation,” he tweeted.
Rawat, a key Congress troubleshooter, is apparently keen to be projected as the party’s face for the Uttarakhand Assembly elections due early next year.
The Congress leaders have, however, so far maintained that the electoral battle in the hill state would be fought under collective leadership.