Ex Haryana CM BS Hooda meets loyalists, new party on the cards

Former Haryana Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda today met his loyalist in the national capital to decide on his next course of action before the Assembly polls.

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday met his loyalists from the party in the national capital to chalk out his future course of action ahead of the state Assembly polls.

The Congress leaders met to discuss the report submitted by a 36-member committee formed by Hooda to take a decision on his future course of political action.

Speaking to reporters, former Haryana Congress chief Phool Chand Mullana said that the entire committee first met Hooda, and then each member put forward individual views. Majority of the committee members said that they would accept Hooda's decision.

Yet another member at the meeting, Krishnamurthy Hooda said that there were multiple options, and the formation of a new party was very much possible.

At a rally in Rohtak earlier in August, Hooda had announced that he would form a committee to decide the future course of action for his faction, which has been demanding that Hooda be made the state Congress chief, replacing Ashok Tanwar.

Trouble turned intense in the Congress' Haryana unit due to the debacle in the General Elections where the party failed to win a single seat out of a total of 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.

Haryana, where 90 Assembly seats are at stake, is scheduled to go to polls in October this year.

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