It was time for a senior to rebuke the juniors. Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi lost his temper when he saw Youth Congress leaders from Kerala briefing the media. “What are you doing here?” he asked them publicly.
Dwivedi, who is also chairman of the AICC media cell, asked them not to speak about party matters to the media. Among those at the receiving end were organisation president M. Liju, handpicked by another party general secretary, Rahul Gandhi.
The Youth Congress leaders had met Dwivedi and other central leaders to raise the organisation’s demand that they be given more seats in the upcoming elections to local bodies in Kerala.
Malayalam TV channels captured the visuals of Dwivedi’s tirade. Luckily for him, he did not use any objectionable word unlike another Congress leader in the recent past.
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