Since his proposal at an event in Rohtak earlier this month for a four Deputy Chief Ministers “formula” if the Congress is voted to power in next year’s Haryana Assembly poll, senior party leader and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has faced heat from both his colleagues and rivals.
While Chief Minister Manohar Lal accused Mr. Hooda of resorting to “brazen caste politics” and of “disrobing democracy”, senior Congress leaders in the State denied any such plan in the works.
During the event on October 12, Mr. Hooda had referred to a plan he claimed to have devised ahead of the 2019 Assembly election, that of four Deputy CMs — a Brahmin, a Scheduled Caste (SC), a woman, and an Other Backward Class (OBC) person.
