Aradhana Misra Mona, the new chief of the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh, ran into her first challenge on her first day at work when supporters of the outgoing chief began fighting with those who are loyal to her.
Mamta Choudhary, the chief of the party’s Madhya Pradesh women’s wing, also came under verbal attack while attending the event to install the new UP Congress chief. Amid the shouts, Congress leaders including Mona’s father Pramod Tiwari, who is a Rajya Sabha MP, and Imran Masood, the party’s working president in UP, tried to placate both sides. Tiwari was seen with his hands folded speaking with the outgoing UP Congress chief. Rai later welcomed his successor with a bouquet to indicate everything had been taken under control, while other Congress leaders downplayed the ruckus. He declined to comment on the matter. “There is nothing much for me to say.
“We are feeling very disheartened,” Choudhary said. I am an ordinary party cadre who will continue to put in my best for the party,” he said, adding he she would take the party to “new heights.”
It began when supporters of Congress leader Ajay Rai, who Mona replaced, began raising slogans against her during the event to mark her ascension.
