CONGRESS READY TO CONTEST ALL SEATS IN HARYANA: HOODA

Parties across Haryana are actively gearing up for Mission 2024 ahead of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections to be held in the state next year.

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The Congress party’s Haryana unit has made significant changes to its organisation, the first being the appointment of state in-charge Deepak Babaria on 9 June. In his first action as state in-charge, Babaria held meetings with several state legislators and later held a two-day-long state-level party meeting. India News’ Vipin Parmar speaks to former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to ascertain the end result of these meetings.

Q: The party organised a huge gathering and several former Ministers were summoned. This was also the first time that several prominent leaders of the Congress were seen together at the same forum. What are your takeaways from the meeting?

A: The state in-charge Deepak Babaria met with district-level leaders, Ministers, as well as former and current MLAs in private meetings to take feedback and gather information about the situation in the state. Mr Babaria also met the state leaders to come up with a plan to fill organisational posts which has been pending for a long time.

Q: No one understands Haryana or the Congress party’s politics better than you do. What are the talking points that were given special attention during the meeting and which issues did the party’s leaders unite over?