Team News Riveting
Chandigarh, February 5
Once Congress’ face in handling critical and sensitive issues before the media, the party now finds Manish Tewari not a “star campaigner” in Punjab despite he being a Member of Parliament (MP) from the state.
A day after he was excluded from the list of star campaigners for Punjab elections, Congress MP from Anandpur Sahib Manish Tewari said he would have been pleasantly surprised had it been the other way round. “I would have been surprised if it would have been the other way around. The reasons have been a Public Affair now for quite a while,” Tewari said to Abhijit who earlier came out in his support on Twitter.
Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee has taken a dig at the party on Twitter. “Sad state of affairs in @INCPunjabas they exclude a prominent senior congress leader, MP from Punjab and former minister @ManishTewari Ji from the list of star campaigners in poll bound Punjab! Such narrow-minded steps will never help Congress to win elections,” Abhijit, who quit Congress to join the Trinamool Congress, tweeted.
Congress has also dropped Gulam Nabi Azad from the list of 30 who would be party’s star campaigner in Punjab.
