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Khap issue: Cong sets up coordination panel in Haryana
Subodh Ghildiyal, TNN, May 22, 2010, 02.59am IST
NEW DELHI: With the row over Khap heavy handedness over same-gotra
marriages and the perception of dalits getting a raw deal lingering,
the Congress brass has activated the coordination committee for
Haryana.
The mechanism, which was conceived as a check on the government, has
so far remained inert but the blowback from increasing controversies
over caste issues have finally led the leadership to heed the
dissident's demand to hold monthly meeting of the panel.
With this, the check on the state government has been formalized.
However, the two caste issues have dominated to step up the Congress
leadership's engagement with affairs in Haryana with even Rahul Gandhi
meeting MLAs, including dalits, for a feedback on the state of
affairs. Rahul's visit to clash-hit Mirchpur village earlier surprised
insiders and observers alike, as it came after the state's assurance
to the victims failed to win their confidence and they insisted on
being relocated outside. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi too wrote a
strong letter to the CM.
Mirchpur reared its head at the meeting of AICC's Haryana coordination
panelon Thursday evening where, sources said, convenor Prithviraj
Chavan said the incident in the village had sent a negative signal
about party regime. He called it "a matter of concern".
While CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda defended his government saying all
promises made to the victims had been fulfilled, the casteist
discourse kicked off by the clashes and accentuated by the Khap
stridency on same-gotra marriage, along with the perception that
Congress was treating it with kidgloves, seems to have rattled the
leadership. Sources said Chavan asked "the CM on how government and
party planned to tackle" the Khap issue. "It is not giving the party a
good image," he is learnt to have said, to which Hooda said he had
announced that law will prevail. According to sources, a perception of
atrocities on SCs in a Congress state undercuts Rahul's campaign among
the community in UP where he is leading a campaign to dent the support
base of BSP supremo Mayawati.
The AICC has decided to involve other leaders in Haryana affairs.
Sources said major policy issues will be discussed by the coordination
panel before going to cabinet. The panel will meet monthly and will
have a structured agenda for discussion. Importantly, Chavan also
directed Hooda to hold a meeting of MPs along with state officials in
the capital ahead of the every Parliament session. It was said that
the meeting will help as MPs also have demands from the state
government while they will also know the issues to be raised in
Parliament.
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