By PTI
DEHRADUN: Newly-appointed Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Karan Mahara on Thursday suggested MLAs to not neglect the “symbol of the party” for they owe their win to it. Mahara stated this as sources inside social gathering spoke of discontent amongst some legislators over the latest organisational overhaul.
“MLAs are accountable to their voters. It applies to MLAs of any party. Winning polls on the symbol of one party and going to another after the polls amounts to letting down your voters and going against the mandate. You have been voted on the symbol and ideology of a particular party. You don’t become god after winning the election,” Mahara who would formally assume workplace because the PCC chief on April 17 stated in reply to a query from reporters right here.
Around 10 Congress MLAs are stated to be sad with the latest organisational revamp of the Congress in Uttarakhand by which Mahara was appointed because the PCC president, Bajpur MLA Yashpal Arya because the Leader of Opposition within the state Assembly, and Bhuvan Chandra Kapri, who had defeated Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in Khatima, because the Deputy Leader of Opposition.
A gathering of allegedly disgruntled Congress legislators was to happen right here on Wednesday however didn’t as a few of them couldn’t come on time.
It is prone to happen Thursday later. Mahara stated he was not conscious of any discontent amongst social gathering MLAs. “I have been getting congratulatory messages from the MLAs. I do not see any discontent among them,” he stated.
However, sources stated senior social gathering chief Harish Rawat has been requested to defuse the disaster and he’s in contact with the resentful MLAs.
