While attacking BJP, People's Democracy editorial talks about the Congress's divided house in Himachal, says opposition parties need "bold and consistent fight ideologically, politically against Hindutva communal forces"
There were warning signs of the disaster that the Congress faced in the Rajya Sabha polls. One of the most recent examples was when Vikramaditya Singh (son of Virbhadra Singh) expressed his keenness to visit Ayodhya for the January "pran pratistha" ceremony of the Ram Lalla idol, in defiance of the party line.
The Congress, reeling from the shocking defeat of its Rajya Sabha candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi to BJP s Harsh Mahajan in Himachal Pradesh, has appointed senior leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and D K Shivakumar to engage with the six MLAs, who are said to have cross-voted in the Tuesday s Rajya Sabha elections.
In signs of a thaw in the infighting-riddled Himachal Pradesh unit of the Congress, state minister Vikramaditya Singh has taken back his resignation hours after tendering it.
Congress Rajya Sabha candidate in Himachal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, claimed that the Congress MLAs who cross-voted had dinner with him last night and even three of them had breakfast the morning after.