The North News
Chandigarh, March 13
Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress general secretary Suchitra Devi has been expelled from the party days after her allegations that money was demanded in exchange for an assembly election ticket to her.
Haryana Mahila Congress president Pearl Choudhary issued the orders expelling her from the Mahila Congress.
Haryana Congress president Rao Narender Singh on Monday dismissed as “baseless” the allegations that money was demanded by party leaders from Suchitra and her husband Gaurav Kumar in exchange for an assembly election ticket to Suchitra.
Suchitra recently said that she had last month resigned from the Mahila Congress.
“It has been brought to the notice of the organization that you have made statements in the newspapers levelling baseless and wild allegations against party office bearers, which are far from the truth. Such statements are clearly anti-party in nature and detrimental to the interests and discipline of the organization,” said the order issued by Choudhary.
It has further been observed that these actions appear to have been carried out at the behest of certain detractors with the intent to damage the image, functioning, and credibility of the Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress, as per the expulsion order dated March 11.
“After due consideration of the matter, the organization has taken a serious view of your conduct. Accordingly, you are hereby expelled from the Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress with immediate effect for engaging in activities that violate organizational discipline and run contrary to the interests of the party,” it stated.
Choudhary was appointed as Haryana Mahila Congress chief last month.
“Where were they (Suchitra and her husband) for the past one-and-a-half years? They had met me earlier, and she (Suchitra) had expressed a desire to become the Haryana Mahila Congress president. I told her that this would be decided by the party,” Haryana Congress chief Singh said on Monday.
Recently, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari had alleged that Gaurav Kumar claimed the Congress leadership tried to “extort” Rs 7 crore from the couple in exchange for giving his wife a party ticket from the Bawal assembly constituency.
Speaking at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, Bhandari had said Kumar shared alleged WhatsApp chats involving personal assistants of senior Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and described them as “prima facie proof of corruption”.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi also cited Kumar’s claims to allege that the Congress was “corrupt to the core”.
