Cong MPs complain against APCC chief

The opposition against the president of APCC is building up in the state, with a couple of MPs from the state, intensifying their campaign against Tarun Gogoi.

The opposition against the president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee Bhubaneshwar Kalaita is building up in the state, with a couple of MPs from the state, who are close associates of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, intensifying their campaign against him.

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Deep Gogoi, the brother of the chief minister and the MP of the Kaliabar parliamentary constituency and three other MPs, Dwijendra Mohan Sharmah, Anuwara Taimur and Kirip Chaliha met the party high command and submitted a written complaint against Kalita, conveying that if the Assembly election was to be held under the leadership of the present president, the party was certain to bite the dust.

Many MPs and MLAs belonging to the Tarun Gogoi group have been trying for some time to oust Kalita from the post of party president and Gogoi had made his disapproval clear with a candid statement that he would like Kalita to be replaced by one of his favourites. Many leaders had in the past met the high command to express their resentment against Kalita, though verbally only.

Despite having been accused of keeping the senior leaders away from party activities as well as decisions and also of ignoring the growth plans of the party, spending most of his time on frequent Delhi visits, party president Sonia Gandhi and the High Command had maintained that Kalita would remain the APCC chief when the state would go to polls next year.