Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi has suffered a severe jolt with the party high command deciding not to include his son Amit in Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CPCC) in the latest reshuffle of the state party.
The reconstituted CPCC, cleared by party high command late on Saturday evening, has however accommodated Mr Jogi’s wife Renu as vice-president of the state unit, while inducting Amit in the coordination committee and election committee of the CPCC apparently to appease him.
The PCC having as many as 15 vice-presidents and 22 general secretaries has, however, represented camps of all the factional leaders of the party in Chhattisgarh such as Mr Jogi, AICC treasurer Motilal Vohra and PCC president and Union minister of state for agriculture Charan Das Mahant.
Party sources said Mr Jogi had lobbied hard with the Congress leadership to induct his son, who virtually runs the state youth and student wings of the party, in PCC as general secretary. However, the junior Jogi was denied entry into PCC following stiff opposition from his rival leaders in the party.
In an apparent bid to cash in on the gory incident of elimination of key party leaders of the state in the May 25 Naxal attack at Jiram Ghati in Bastar district in the coming Assembly polls, the party high command has included four kin of slain party leaders in the newly-constituted CPCC.