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This is an archive article published on January 11, 1999
Bhadana8217;s expulsion revoked
GURGAON, Jan 10: Former MP from Faridabad, Avtar Singh Bhadana, has been re-admitted into the Congress. He had been expelled from the par...
GURGAON, Jan 10: Former MP from Faridabad, Avtar Singh Bhadana, has been re-admitted into the Congress. He had been expelled from the party for a period of six years for defying the party high command in the last Lok Sabha elections.
In a communication to the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee HPCC president Bhupinder Singh Hooda today, Meira Kumar, General Secretary of All India Congress Committee AICC said the the party president Sonia Gandhi had revoked the expulsion of Bhadana and admitted him into the Congress with immediate effect. Hooda had lobbied for withdrawal of the expulsion order.
Bhadana, a Gujjar leader, had turned rebel in the Lok Sabha elections in 1998 after he was denied the ticket for the Faridabad Lok Sabha seat. What followed was high drama at the AICC headquarters, where the rebel leader landed with truckloads of supporters and quot;gheraoedquot; it, raising slogans against the then Congress president Sita Ram Kesri. The party high command expelled him when he decided to contest against the official Congress candidate, Khurshid Ahmed. He eventually lost the election, finishing third but caused the defeat of Ahmed in a close contest. The seat was bagged by Ram Chander Bainda of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP.
The Gujjar leader is the second senior state leader to join the Congress. Earlier, the Haryana Vikas Party HVP general secretary Ram Kumari Sharma had joined the Congress along with her supporters on Saturday, giving a jolt to the ruling party. Sharma had expressed full faith in the leadership of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
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