‘Am I less qualified?’: Congress’s Nagma Morarji asked as the party dropped its names from RS candidates
Highlight
- Congress leader Nagma expressed displeasure over the exclusion of her name from the list of Rajya Sabha candidates.
- She questioned whether she was “less qualified”.
- He said that his 18 years of penance in front of Imran Prapathagiri of UP has been reduced.
With the Congress under criticism for excluding some important and prominent names from its list of candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections, Mahila Congress in-charge and actor Nagma Morarji on Monday expressed displeasure over the exclusion of her name from the list of candidates released on Sunday. expressed. , She questioned whether she was “less qualified” and said her 18 years of penance had been cut short in front of Uttar Pradesh’s Imran Prapathagiri, who was accommodated as a candidate from Maharashtra.
“Sonia ji our Congress President personally committed to include me in Rajya Sabha in 2003/04 when I joined Congress party at his behest, then we were not in power. It’s been 18 years since then “He hasn’t got an opportunity, Mr Imran has been accommodated in RS Fram Maha, I ask if I am less qualified”, she tweeted.
His tweet was a follow-up to an earlier tweet, as he extended support to fellow Congress leader Pawan Khera, who tweeted, “Maybe there was something missing in my penance”.
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The Congress on Sunday announced 10 candidates for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections, fielding former Union ministers P Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken as well as party’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala.
The list includes two leaders – former Union ministers Mukul Wasik (Rajasthan) and Vivek Tankha (Madhya Pradesh) – who were among a group of 23 leaders who wrote to Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 2020, demanding a massive organizational change. Was.
Many prominent leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma were also dropped from the list. As senior leader M Veerappa Moily distanced himself from the group, Jitin Prasada joined the BJP, Sibal quit the party and Wasnik did not attend its meetings in recent days, the G-23 has become weak.
Read also: Congress released the list of candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections. details inside