Fighting fit

Infighting within the Congress in Chhattisgarh has reached absurd lengths

Infighting within the Congress in Chhattisgarh has reached such absurd lengths that former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader Vidyacharan Shukla undertook a 250-km journey to Raigarh all the way from Raipur. The objective: to denigrate fellow Congressman Naveen Jindal, whose steel facility is located in Raigarh. Shukla said Jindal may be a member of Parliament but he was not a true Congressman because his name figures in the current coal block allocation scandal. What is more, Shukla said, he’s done nothing to strengthen the Congress party in the state, a point he obviously felt important enough to make in Raigarh, a city he hasn’t visited in the last couple of years.