Whereas excessive command loyalist Ajay Maken was the Congress’s nominee for one of many two seats, he couldn’t make it to the Rajya Sabha regardless of the Congress having enough variety of votes.
Bansal was a everlasting invitee to the CWC by advantage of being in-charge of the Congress in Haryana.
The steering committee will operate instead of the CWC, determine the date and venue for the subsequent plenary session and likewise oversee preparations for holding the conclave, throughout which Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as Congress president can be ratified and a brand new CWC elected. The plenary is predicted to be held in February-March 2023.
“No matter has occurred, it’s in entrance of all people. What can I say about that?” Bansal instructed The Indian Specific.
Bansal had been Maken’s agent for the June 10 Higher Home election. A “fallacious vote” by one Congress MLA is believed to have sealed Maken’s destiny, and provided that it was Bansal’s mandate to see that each get together legislator marked their poll accurately earlier than casting it, his position had come below cloud. Bansal was anticipated to be on his guard, particularly because the get together was anticipating the sulking dissident Kuldeep Bishnoi to bask in “cross voting” within the ballot, which the latter ultimately did.
Bansal, 63, hails from UP’s Aligarh. The final time he received an Meeting ballot was in 2002, from Aligarh seat. Since then, he has been shedding from the Koil seat. He misplaced the 2012 ballot by simply 500 votes to a Samajwadi Social gathering candidate, whereas in 2017 and 2022, he completed third behind candidates of the BJP and the SP.
In line with his affidavit filed with the Election Fee for the 2022 ballot, Bansal had property value over Rs 5 crore and his major supply of incomes is “rental revenue and others”. He additionally had a number of legal circumstances registered towards him, most of which have been “not-serious”, associated primarily to Covid-19 violations. He had finished his post-graduation from Aligarh Muslim College.
Ever since he took cost of Haryana, Bansal had struggled to maintain the faction-riven Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) united.
The appointment of Udai Bhan, a loyalist of ex-chief minister and state Chief of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda, because the HPCC president, changing Kumari Selja, was one in all Bansal’s first challenges. Since Udai Bhan took over in April and particularly after the June 10 Rajya Sabha ballot fiasco, Bansal has been nearly sidelined by the state unit of the Congress.
On August 1, when the HPCC organised a one-day Chintan Shivir in Panchkula, a number of AICC leaders, former and incumbent Members of Parliament, former and incumbent MLAs and a number of other senior leaders have been current, however Bansal wasn’t invited. Just lately, the HPCC chosen 195 delegates from the state who ultimately voted within the AICC president ballot. However, once more, Bansal was not on the listing.
Whereas this was sufficient indication clear that the get together’s revamped state unit didn’t need Bansal because the get together’s in-charge for Haryana, his non-inclusion within the steering committee has made it amply clear that he was set to be on his manner out, whilst get together affairs in-charge.
Sources near Bansal mentioned it was the “Hooda-camp that didn’t need Bansal to be get together affairs in-charge of Haryana. As an alternative, they need their very own man to be there. They and Ajay Maken prevailed upon the get together excessive command and ensured that Bansal was dropped from the steering committee’s listing”.
Bhupinder Hooda and his son Deepender have been additionally not included within the steering committee, though Hooda’s detractors Kumari Selja and Randeep Surjewala are in. Social gathering insiders say Bhupinder couldn’t be included within the steering committee as a result of he was the CLP chief, whereas Deepender was not included as a result of he was a particular invitee to the CWC, not a everlasting one.