Bhatia kept busy with guess work

Despite Suresh Kalmadi8217;s grand show of merging his one-year old outfit Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi with the Congress, the old loyalists who had never deserted the party 8211; are unwilling to demonstrate their affection8217; for the new leader. Due to their reluctance a meeting of the old hands at the Congress Bhavan decided to appoint a four-member committee of Vandana Chavan, Ramdas Pawar, Ajit Apte and Ajit Darekar to work out their strategy vis-a-vis Bhatia.

Interestingly, the meeting at Congress Bhavan preferred not to invite their new found MVA colleagues. Sources claimed that they refused to technically recognise the MVA8217;s merger with the Congress which seems to further complicate the issue of supporting or not supporting Bhatia. City unit chief Mohan Joshi8217;s appeal to party workers to attend another meeting with Suresh Kalmadi at the Pune Municipal Corporation drew a blank response.

Top