Congress letting Gujarat leaders down led to poll debacle, says Veerappa Moily
Bengaluru (PTI): State leaders were let down which led to the poor show of the Congress in Gujarat Assembly elections, senior party leader M Veerappa Moily said on Sunday.
Noting that the Congress should always respect leaders who brought it success earlier, the former Union Minister said the move to make Pratibha Singh, wife of former CM late Virbhadra Singh, PCC chief paid electoral dividends in Himachal Pradesh.
The Congress won just 17 seats in the Gujarat Assembly, while bagging 40 seats in the 68-member Himachal Pradesh House.
"Tested, well-tested and time-tested leaders will have to be given honour and respect and that's how the Congress can come up which we have not done in Gujarat", Moily told PTI.
"In Gujarat, the leaders have been let down and things have not improved. It's a lesson to be learnt", the former Karnataka Chief Minister said.
Speaking in general terms, he said Congress National General Secretaries and Observers should not "impose" on State leaders and, instead, they should be empowered, nurtured and given due recognition "so that they can always work for the party.
"Last time, they got a very good result (Congress got 77 seats in the 2017 Gujarat Assembly poll). All these leaders who were at the helm of affairs (in Gujarat in 2017) have been changed, they are not properly given their respect and recognition", Moily pointed out.
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Haryana man Devendra arrested for spying, allegedly shared sensitive information with Pakistan
Chandigarh: A resident of a village in Haryana’s Kaithal was arrested for allegedly passing on sensitive information to the Pakistan army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) during the recent Indo-Pakistan conflict.
The accused is identified as Devendra, a resident of Mastgarh Cheeka village in Kaithal.
During questioning, it was revealed that he went to Pakistan in November last year through the Kartarpur corridor and was sharing sensitive information with officers of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency, as reported by NDTV on Saturday.
"Intelligence information was received by the district police of Kaithal. On that basis our special detective staff arrested Devendra, son of Narwal Singh, resident of village Mastgarh Cheeka," news agency quoted DSP Kaithal Veerbhan as saying.
He added that the individual regularly shared details about the ongoing India-Pakistan dispute, as well as information related to Operation Sindoor, with the Pakistani Army and intelligence agency ISI.
The police are now conducting a detailed investigation of the electronic devices seized from him at the cyber police station.
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