Kiran Choudhry was treated unfairly in Haryana Congress, says Sirsa MP Kumari Selja

Kiran Choudhry was treated unfairly within the party, senior Congress leader and Sirsa MP Kumari Selja said after the sitting MP and her daughter joined the BJP in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Kiran Choudhry, MP from Tosham in Bhiwani district, along with her daughter Shruti, former MP from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh, resigned from their post as senior Congress member on Tuesday. Shruti was also the working president of the Haryana unit of the Congress.

Selja said: “It’s sad. She (Kiran) is a veteran leader of the party. She had pushed Bansi Lal’s policies forward. This will harm the party. Her daughter did not receive a ticket, this could be the reason for her departure. I say if Shruti had got the ticket, she would have won with a huge majority. I don’t know the reason for her departure, but she (Kiran) was treated unfairly.

Kiran Choudhry is the daughter-in-law of former Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal.

Haryana Congress president Udai Bhan said Kiran Choudhry’s departure would not affect the party.

“No, it doesn’t affect Congress at all…she said Congress has no future in Haryana, so she is going where she thinks its future is assured…she left because that his daughter did not receive a ticket… …it has nothing to do with ideology,” he said.

Congress Assandh MP Shamsher Singh Gogi also termed Kiran’s exit as unfortunate, saying the party leadership must find a solution. “I feel sad and I regret it too. She’s been in Congress her whole life and struggled…if she was in trouble, she should have met with high command. The high command must also take such incidents seriously…it is the duty of our leaders to find a solution to this. This is my personal opinion. I don’t know what exactly happened, but it’s very unfortunate,” Gogi said.

Meanwhile, former minority affairs minister and BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi slammed the Congress and said, “This time the public has given a broader mandate to the Congress than last time. But along with this, their ego has also increased. There is silence at their front door and a huge crowd at the exit door.

In the recent assembly elections, the Congress won five out of ten Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, compared to none in 2019.

After joining the BJP, Kiran Choudhry said that over the past few years, the Haryana Congress had become a “people-centric party”. “I was a dedicated Congress worker. I dedicated my life to the party by working hard. But for a few years, I saw the Haryana Congress becoming a people-centric party. They did not want Congress to follow such policies. So you can understand that the Congress would never have made any headway in Haryana. Great leaders left the party because of them. I took this step to ensure that my workers get the equal rights due to them,” she said.