'Haryana Congress divide is a media creation'

As the split within the Haryana Congress grew palpable, Congress General Secretary B K Hariprasad today sought to portray a united house and termed it as a "media creation".
While prominent Congress leaders from Haryana raising the bogey of regional bias in the development works, party General Secretary B K Hariprasad today said some comments being attributed were only a "media creation".
Hariprasad, who is party in-charge for Haryana affairs, was here to attend a meeting of state Congress' block and district presidents.
Haryana Congress President Phool Chand Mullana, who was among others present at the meeting, said that it was held in a "cordial atmosphere".

The rift within the Haryana Congress came out in open when Congress' Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh accused Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda led government of "regional bias" in carrying out the development works.
Singh, who has floated a non-political Haryana Insaaf Manch, is a known political opponent of Hooda.

Union minister and Ambala MP Kumari Selja too has in the past raised issue of lopsided development in Haryana.
Her loyalist and Rajya Sabha MP Ishwar Singh will be holding a rally at Gulha Cheeka on March 24, in which Selja, Congress General Secretary and senior leader from Haryana, Birender Singh, have been invited, but no invite has been extended to Hooda.

However, Hariprasad played down the talk that Haryana Congress was a "divided house" and dismissed that there was any regional bias in development.
"While it is correct to say that everyone wants development more than the other, but it is not correct to say that there is any bias or prejudice in development works that are carried out. Nobody has said anything like regional bias on a party platform," Hariprasad told reporters after the meeting.
While party sources said that some district level leaders raised issues that development works should be accelerated, a former MP, who also attended the meeting, urged Hariprasad to send out a tough warning to detractors who don't fall in line.

On Rao Inderjit floating his 'Manch' and Hooda's known detractors, Selja and Birender Singh, likely to be together for a rally next week in which Hooda has not been invited, Hariprasad said,"there is no harm in this. Only people from Congress and not the BJP or INLD are going to attend such rallies".