Raipur, November 28, 2011
The Congress on Monday staged dharna before Sundar Nagar society and protested the RMC’s action against shopkeepers based at society premises. The dharna is seen as open fight between two Congress leaders - RMC Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and PCC general secretary Subhash Sharma who is also the president of the society. The ego clash between these two leaders has put the party in back foot once again.
The dharna was called upon by Purani Basti block Congress committee (BCC). Majority of the demonstrators were Sharma’s supporters. They demanded removal of Sundar Nagar ward corporator Mrityunjay Dubey from mayor-in-Council (MiC) for asking municipal officials to lock the society’s shops on grounds tax evasion.
Sharma, who belonged to Vora camp, wanted the municipal to spare the society shopkeepers, but Nayak, a staunch Jogi supporter, persevered.
Sharma’s supporters promptly took the matter to PCC president Nandkumar Patel and sought his intervention. They also complained that Nayak gave preference to three independent corporators including Mrityunjay Dubey over the party corporators in 14-member MiC team. They said Nayak should either ask the independent corporators of her team to take Congress membership or remove them immediately. But Patel shrugged off and reportedly asked Sharma’s supporters to solve the matter with Nayak amicably.
Some of the Congress workers term the Monday’s dharna staged by Sharma’s supporters as re-emergence of factionalism in the party. “The party leadership should instantly check growing infighting to prevent BJP to take advantage and divert public attention from corruption charges against the government,” they said.
The participants in the dharna included DCC Raipur City president Inderchand Dhariwal, Pramod Choubey, Sanjay Pathak, Bakar Abbas, Ruchi Dubey, Ambar Shukla, Amarjeet Chawla, Ravindra Shukla and others.
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