The Congress workers from Dhamtari and Nagri Sihava assembly
constituencies on Saturday met party’s state incharge BK Hariprasada separately
and demanded ticket for local candidates instead of sitting MLAs Gurmukh Singh
Hora and Ambika Markam respectively.
The
two groups demonstrated at New Circuit House from where Hariprasada, alongwith
union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, PCC chief Charandas Mahant and
CLP leader Ravindra Choubey, later left for Abhanpur.
The
party workers from Dhamtari led by former MLA Harshad Mehta told Hariprasada
that they would not support Hora if he gets ticket again. Terming Hora as
outsider, they said ticket should be given to local candidate. They further
said since Dhamtari had history of not repeating any candidate, Hora had least
chance of victory from the constituency.
Notably,
Hora’s ticket is said to be final due to his proximity with Mahant and party’s
indications of keeping tickets of sitting MLAs intact.
Mehta,
who belonged to party legislator Ajit Jogi’s camp, reportedly wants to contest
from Dhamtari and hence tried to mount pressure on Hariprasada and Mahant by
claiming support of local Congmen. Besides, Mehta, another Jogi supporter -
former YC leader Anand Pawar too is in race of ticket from Dhamtari.
Another
group of Congress workers from Nagri Sihava led by ex-union minister Madhav
Singh Dhruv told Hariprasada that Markam’s candidature should be ignored this
time as she did not do anything for her constituency in five years.
Pointing
that Markam failed to bring muster crowd of Mahila Congress when party’s kalash
yatra recently reached Nagri Sihava, the workers said she had lost their trust
and they would not campaign for her if she gets chance to contest Vidhan Sabha
polls again.
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