The Big Story: Full circle
Earlier this month, results came in for Jammu and Kashmir’s District Development Council elections – the first direct polls held in the Union territory since it had been downgraded from a state the year earlier.
To understand these results, we need a bit of background.
On August 5, 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Delhi decided to take full control of the political situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
Without engaging with the public or even their representatives in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the Centre decided to downgrade the state to a Union territory, split it by carving out Ladakh and strip away the Constitutional guarantees of autonomy – i.e. Article 370, that had allowed for the erstwhile princely state to become a part of India.
Bhopal: Congress in MP has been left red-faced after a Jyotiraditya Scindia aide, Harshit Singhai, who says he joined BJP eight months ago, was elected general secretary of Youth Congress last week. The Youth Congress on Tuesday alleged Singhai’s election was a deliberate ploy by Scindia group to embarrass Congress. Singhai tweeted he has been working as a BJP cadre for past eight months
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In Massive Goof-up, MP Congress Youth Wing Elects A BJP Leader As Its General Secretary
In a huge goof-up, the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress on Friday elected Harshit Singhai - who is now in BJP - as its general secretary of Jabalpur unit
In a huge goof-up, the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress on Friday elected Harshit Singhai - who is actually in BJP - as its general secretary of Jabalpur unit. Even though his appointment was cancelled later, the blunder came as a major embarrassment for the grand old party. As per reports, Singhai got congratulatory messages for his appointment as Youth Congress chief in Jabalpur, nine months after leaving the Congress. Singhai, who is a Jyotiraditya Scindia loyalist, had quit Congress in March.
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: Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 7:01 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh: In embarrassing gaffe, Congress elects BJP leader to top post in party s youth unit
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Congress, India s grand old party , fell victim to an embarassing mistake in Madhya Pradesh, whereby the party elected an ex-Congress member, currently in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) s ranks, for a Youth Congress post in the state.
Harshit Singhai, now a BJP worker, was left startled on this day when he received congratulatory messages over his election to a new post as the secretary of the Jabalpur unit of the Youth Congress.
Singhai had left the Congress back in March, along with a group of defectors who followed veteran leader Jyotiraditya Scindia s footsteps and switched camps over from the Congress to the BJP.