Cong divided over entry to PVA men

PUNE, May 24: Even as the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranjit Deshmukh recently gave a green signal to the inclusion of ...

PUNE, May 24: Even as the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranjit Deshmukh recently gave a green signal to the inclusion of 10 Pune Vikas Aghadi (PVA) corporators in Congress, the party’s city unit continues to be divided over the issue.

While one faction of Congress, led by former mayors Vandana Chavan and Ulhas Dhole Patil, is pressing the party leadership to allow the PVA men to return to the party fold, another faction led by Ankush Kakde is strongly opposed to the move.

The differences over the issue have been stretched to the limit, so much so that members of the both factions have started maligning each other in open. It was only last week that a statement making ugly charges against the woman corporators belonging to the Dhole Patil faction and the 10 PVA corporators, was distributed to media persons and political workers at the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) by a Kakde supporter.

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Dhole Patil and Chavan retaliated by demanding the resignation of Congress corporator Nitin Jagtap, accusing him of distributing the statement. Jagtap denied having issued the statement. However, in a counter charge, he issued a letter to Congress leader Sharad Pawar alleging that Dhole-Patil and Vandana Chavan had acted against the interest of the Congress party by lobbying with Suresh Kalmadi, founder of the PVA.

He even expressed his willingness to resign from the party. Pawar, who was in the city last week, has not reacted to the Jagtap’s letter nor he entertained Dhole-Patil and Chavan who had called on him at the Baramati hostel.

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