Seeking to balance social equations and various groups in faction-ridden state unit, Congress today named senior leader Ajay Yadav, an OBC face, the chairman of its campaign committee while Naveen Jindal was named Chairman of publicity committee for assembly poll-bound Haryana.
The party has already made it clear that being Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda will be the face of the party for the elections that will take place before October-end.
Senior party leader Kiran Chaudhary, a known detractor of Chief Minister Hooda, who is also a Jat leader, has been made Co-Chairperson of the campaign committee whose convener is Dilu Ram Baziagar, a Dalit leader.
Ajay Yadav had quit Hooda ministry sometime back but was persuaded by the party leadership to withdraw his resignation.
The party felt the six-time MLA and OBC leader's quittiing the party at a time when a number of party leaders resigned slamming the style of functioning of the Chief Minister could have sent a wrong signal ahead of the elections.
Chief Minister Hooda, PCC Chief Ashok Tanwar, former union minister Kumari Selja (both Tanwar and Selja are Dalit leaders), former PCC Chief Phool Chand Mullana, Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Sharma (a Brahmin), lone party MP in Lok Sabha from Haryana Deepender Singh Hooda, Shadi Lal Batra, Shruti Chaudhary, AICC spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala and Jindal were among the 40 members of Haryana Pradesh Election Campaign Committee announced today.
