October 09, 2025 05:40 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Zubeen Garg death probe: Singer's cop cousin who accompanied him to Singapore arrested | India Mobile Congress and the country's success in telecom sector reflect strength of Aatmanirbhar Bharat vision: PM Modi | Delhi HC summons Red Chillies Ent., Netflix in Sameer Wankhede's defamation suit over Aryan Khan's The Ba***ds of Bollywood | No visa deal with India: UK PM Keir Starmer aims to enhance trade ties during his visit to South Asian country | Pakistan denies backing Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan amid domestic outrage | Five Pakistan fighter jets were shot down during Operation Sindoor, claims IAF chief | Ex-Pakistan captain Sana Mir says her controversial 'Azad Kashmir' remark was 'blown out of proportion' | Sonam Wangchuk's wife moves Supreme Court challenging activist's detention under NSA | India will never allow any humiliation: Putin praises 'balanced and wise leader' Modi slamming US tariffs | 'Any misadventure in the Sir Creek sector will invite a decisive response': Rajnath Singh warns Pakistan
Congress
Photo courtesy: Facebook/Rajeev Shukla

'Pawan Bansal is with us': Rajeev Shukla amid mass resignations from Congress in Chandigarh

| @indiablooms | Apr 18, 2024, at 07:52 pm

Chandigarh/IBNS: At a time the country is heading to the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, Congress faced massive setback in Chandigarh as 80 of its city leaders quit the party over an alleged disrespect shown to former MP Pawan Bansal, media reports said.

The mass resignation followed after several were upset over Chandigarh Congress chief H S Lucky's Instagram post after Manish Tiwari was announced the candidate from the Chandigarh seat.

Despite the embarrassment, senior Congress leader Rajeev Shukla claimed Bansal is with the grand old party.

Shukla told The Indian Express, "Bansal ji is with us. He is always with the party. These are temporary reactions which happen in every political party… They (those who resigned) are not against the candidate.

"They are not against the party…. They are reacting just to some statement of a party functionary. So we will definitely pacify them, will talk to them and resolve it."

"This always happens when elections are around the corner… something like this always happens … We will speak to them," he added.

He is also visiting Chandigarh on Thursday.

Lucky has now said he respects Bansal and claimed his social media profiles are handled by students.

The leaders, who resigned from the party, have demanded the removal of Lucky as the unit chief. 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Close menu