Congress leader Jagdish Tytler is in a bind once again. One would imagine his woes had ended after his rehabilitation last July as the party in-charge of Bihar – but not quite.
While the list of Bihar office-bearers he finalised generated a major controversy for allegedly containing caste descriptions, Tytler made a bigger mistake by including Speaker Meira Kumar’s name among the list of special invitees to the Pradesh Congress Committee.
Several senior Bihar Congress leaders, who are upset over the list of office-bearers, delivered a snub to Tytler last week by not turning up for the meeting he had called in Patna last week.
Tytler’s ticket for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls was withdrawn by the Congress following an uproar by the Sikh community over his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Some party leaders are wondering if Tytler would be able to bring order to the Bihar unit ahead of assembly elections this year.
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