Blitzkrieg between Hooda-Patel over seat sharing goes viral

A viral video of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi's aide Ahmed Patel and former state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has surfaced showing the two engaged in a war of words ahead of the assembly elections in Haryana scheduled later this month. Patel seems agitated during a conversation with Hooda and Ghulam Nabi Azad over the ticket-allocation process in the state.

New Delhi: A video has surfaced ahead of the assembly elections in Haryana scheduled later this month showing Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi's aide Ahmed Patel and former state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda engaged in a war of words outside Parliament on Thursday.

In the 38-second video, Patel seems agitated during a conversation with Hooda and Ghulam Nabi Azad over the ticket-allocation process in the state.

"How the distribution of tickets was done?," Patel asks in the video. "How many did Surjewala get?" he asks Hooda in Hindi to which the latter replied 'four'.

He also asks Bhupinder 'where the party has gone in Haryana'.

The heated conversation comes a day after former PCC chief Ashok Tanwar and his supporters protested outside the residence of Sonia Gandhi alleging corruption in distribution of tickets for the upcoming assembly polls in the state.

Hooda had openly come out against Tanwar, who is known to be close to Rahul Gandhi and had been state unit chief since 2014.