LONDON: Rahul Gandhi’s first travel to the United Kingdom as Congress president can have drawn crowds however it has also uncovered cracks throughout the Indian Overseas Congress-UK (IOC-UK).
There appear to be two teams claiming to be the IOC-UK — an previous committee and a new guard.
Sunil Chopra claims he has been the general secretary of IOC-UK for the previous 8 years however used to be now not consulted about Gandhi’s travel nor invited to any of the events. “We were not informed officially that Rahul Gandhi used to be coming to the United Kingdom. We best came to understand from other sources that he's here,” Chopra said.
Freedom fighter Balwant Kapoor, once personal assistant to Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who used to be in Nehru’s cupboard, used to be president of the crowd from 1992 till he died in 2009 when D L Kahlan took over as president. “Kahlan used to be basic secretary when Kapoor became president. A new committee used to be appointed and I used to be made basic secretary round 2010,” Chopra said.
“I used to be now not asked to lend a hand with Rahul Gandhi’s travel or any of the organisation,” Chopra said. “I simply were given an invitation thru local buddies to the parliament event they usually best invited me to the Ramada Hotel after one among my buddies complained to them. ... Even the Ramada Hotel invite used to be just a forwarded WhatsApp message. It used to be insulting. None people went.”
Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, 87, had been taking a look after the affairs of the IOC UK, according to Chopra. But he said of late they'd struggled to handle touch with “the prime command” of the celebration.
Kamal Dhaliwal, president of the IOCUK which did organise Gandhi’s travel, said: “There don't seem to be two IOCs in the United Kingdom. There is just one recognised through the Indian National Congress in Delhi. All the former leaders have been invited to the Ramada serve as. I in my opinion invited Sunil Chopra. Karan Singh stepped down two years ago and he used to be replaced through Sam Pitroda a yr ago. I became president in March 2017... They will have to have contacted us before Rahul came, now not after, if they wanted to lend a hand organise the event.”
There appear to be two teams claiming to be the IOC-UK — an previous committee and a new guard.
Sunil Chopra claims he has been the general secretary of IOC-UK for the previous 8 years however used to be now not consulted about Gandhi’s travel nor invited to any of the events. “We were not informed officially that Rahul Gandhi used to be coming to the United Kingdom. We best came to understand from other sources that he's here,” Chopra said.
Freedom fighter Balwant Kapoor, once personal assistant to Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who used to be in Nehru’s cupboard, used to be president of the crowd from 1992 till he died in 2009 when D L Kahlan took over as president. “Kahlan used to be basic secretary when Kapoor became president. A new committee used to be appointed and I used to be made basic secretary round 2010,” Chopra said.
“I used to be now not asked to lend a hand with Rahul Gandhi’s travel or any of the organisation,” Chopra said. “I simply were given an invitation thru local buddies to the parliament event they usually best invited me to the Ramada Hotel after one among my buddies complained to them. ... Even the Ramada Hotel invite used to be just a forwarded WhatsApp message. It used to be insulting. None people went.”
Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, 87, had been taking a look after the affairs of the IOC UK, according to Chopra. But he said of late they'd struggled to handle touch with “the prime command” of the celebration.
Kamal Dhaliwal, president of the IOCUK which did organise Gandhi’s travel, said: “There don't seem to be two IOCs in the United Kingdom. There is just one recognised through the Indian National Congress in Delhi. All the former leaders have been invited to the Ramada serve as. I in my opinion invited Sunil Chopra. Karan Singh stepped down two years ago and he used to be replaced through Sam Pitroda a yr ago. I became president in March 2017... They will have to have contacted us before Rahul came, now not after, if they wanted to lend a hand organise the event.”
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