Newsmaker: Ashok Choudhary, changing permutations at the apex

He met Sonia Gandhi earlier this month and was asked to call off a campaign against Lalu Prasad

When Ashok Choudhary was appointed Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee president, the Congress party was almost extinct there. Now, it is  Choudhary who is in danger of becoming extinct. Party vice-president Rahul Gandhi excluded him from a group of MLAs who called on the leader last week.

Reportedly, among the issues discussed, was whether Choudhary should be removed from the presidentship. “I’m not sure why I am being sidelined like this,” Choudhary said to reporters in Patna. He was, he admitted, hurt at not being invited to the talks that hope to stop a split in the party, after state