Former Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Brijlal Khabri on Sunday stated he was “harm” over his elimination from the celebration put up and will meet senior chief Rahul Gandhi over the difficulty as soon as the latter returned to Delhi after his ongoing go to to Leh.
On August 17, the Congress appointed former MLA Ajay Rai as the brand new UPCC president changing Khabri. “I am harm however not indignant in any method” stated Khabri, a Dalit chief who held the UPCC president’s workplace for barely 10 months.
The Congress excessive command had appointed Khabri the UPCC president in October 2022 after the then UPCC president Ajay Kumar Lallu resigned from the put up in March taking the ethical duty of the celebration’s debacle in 2022 U.P. meeting polls.
“You will need to meet Rahul Gandhi and discuss to him immediately. Was he conscious that I was being changed? I want to know the circumstances that led to my ouster whereas I was busy working laborious for the celebration. I was sitting in my workplace doing work on August 17 when at round 6 pm I learnt that I was changed,” Khabri, 62, stated.
He, nonetheless, stated he had no situation as such with the alternative. “That’s the celebration’s determination and it’s most welcome. I settle for it,” he stated.
Khabri, who started his political life as a scholar chief at his DVC school in Orai as Bahujan Chatra Morcha (a scholar wing of the BSP) throughout the time of Kanshi Ram subsequently joined the BSP in 1996 and exited the celebration in 2016. He was BSP MP (received Jaluan Lok Sabha seat in 1999) after which additionally a BSP Rajya Sabha member from 2008 to 2014.
“I had left the BSP because of ideological variations with the BSP chief Mayawati and joined the Congress. I am right here within the Congress as a result of my objective is similar as Rahul Gandhi’s to save lots of the Structure and democracy. I will proceed my work in Congress with the identical zeal. Publish hardly issues in such a mission,” he stated.
When requested to specify causes for his feeling harm, he stated: “I change lots of issues within the UPCC. Dalits and Muslims began turning in direction of the Congress. I carried out ‘Samvidhaan Bachao Sankalp Sabha’ from July 9 to August 13 and coated nearly all of the districts of the state. And such UP Congress conferences that hardly attracted 100 individuals, began getting crowds of 10,000 comprising Dalits, Muslims and disadvantaged individuals.
“I had additionally launched the celebration’s caste census marketing campaign that was dealt with by Manoj Yadav and different OBC leaders of the Congress,” he added.
Khabri denied saying something just like the “Congress has changed an individual who represents 38% inhabitants (Dalits, Muslims, OBCs) by somebody who represents a caste which is barely one per cent of the inhabitants”.
“I by no means stated something like this. Furthermore, whosoever has reported this has achieved incorrect math. Dalits, Muslims, OBCs collectively comprise at the least 70% of the UP’s inhabitants,” he stated.
When requested if he was eliminated due to the hypothesis that BSP chief Mayawati demanded that for her to hitch INDIA coalition of the Opposition first her previous lieutenants be faraway from the Congress, he stated: “If the BSP and the Congress have to return collectively, solely prime leaders of those events would know. How come a normal public would get to learn about this?”.
Newly appointed UPCC president Ajay Rai, 53, is taken into account a firebrand chief. He had contested the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls in opposition to PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi. Rai is a former MLA from Kolasla constituency (in Varanasi) which doesn’t exist anymore.
He received the meeting elections from Kolasla constituency 3 times in a row between 1996 and 2007 on a BJP ticket. He joined the Congress in 2012. After the Kolasla constituency ceased to exist post-delimitation, he received the 2012 meeting elections from the newly created Pindra constituency.
