"We Need To Fight Unitedly," Says: Cong. Campaign Head Harish

Mr. Rawat said Cong. needed to raise local issues!

New Delhi: Ahead of the Assembly elections in Uttarakhand, in an official report of NDTV, Congress party's campaign head Harish Rawat said that we need to fight unitedly in Uttarakhand, Cong. acting president Sonia Gandhi will decide the Chief Minister when we get the mandate.

He added, "The view of the party leadership is that we need to fight the elections unitedly and we will take the decision on the Chief Minister when we get the mandate to pick one. And Sonia Ji will then decide (the Chief Minister) and the party will comply with her decision."

Recently, Mr. Rawat made public and clear hints that the central leadership of the party had abandoned him in favour of the state Congress in charge. Congress then moved to suppress dissatisfaction and made him head of the campaign committee in the hill state.

When asked about infighting in the party, he said "We are facing this challenge unitedly. We are one and under the leadership of Sonia Ji and Rahul Ji."  

Recently in a tweet, Mr. Rawat wrote, "Isn't it strange? We have to swim in this sea of elections, but instead of supporting me, the organisation has either turned its back on me or is playing a negative role."

Explaining his dissatisfaction when he tweeted about them, he said that he was made in charge of campaigning but the block committee and "many other committees" weren't cooperating with him. 

"A large section of the party wasn't involved in the organisational work and when I gave suggestions, they went unheard. That's why I conveyed it to the party leadership and chose to do it through tweets," he clarified.

In order to defeat BJP, he said that Congress needed to snatch states from them by raising local issues. "We can counter the BJP's pet agenda of nationalism with the local issues like unemployment and inflation," he said.