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Tanwar asks Dalits, backward classes to ensure mandate for Congress

Former MP Ashok Tanwar had informally joined the Congress at Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Mahendragarh district on Thursday, dealing a setback to the BJP ahead of the assembly elections.

The Dalit leader on Thursday had described his decision to return to the Congress as the “will of God”. (HT File)

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Updated on Oct 05, 2024 06:34 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, New Delhi

BJP leader and ex-MP Tanwar rejoins Congress

Just an hour ago around 1.45 pm, Tanwar addressed a rally in favour of BJP candidate Randhir Panihar in Hisar’s Nalwa, and he claimed that the BJP will form the government for the third time in Haryana.

Ashok Tanwar, former MP from Sirsa, has rejoined the Congress party. Tanwar returned to Congress in the presence of senior party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Bhupinder Singh Hooda during an election rally in Mahendergarh on Thursday. (Manoj Dhaka/HT)

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Updated on Oct 04, 2024 09:12 AM IST

BySunil Rahar, Rohtak

Ex-MP Ashok Tanwar seeks votes for BJP in Haryana, joins Congress within 2 hours

Ashok Tanwar, who once served as the Haryana Congress president, resigned from the party in 2019.

Ashok Tanwar joined the Congress party in presence of Rahul Gandhi.

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Updated on Oct 03, 2024 04:11 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Key contest: Fierce fight on cards as 2 former Haryana Cong chiefs cross swords in Sirsa

In what is seen as a bipolar contest between a party hopper and the BJP candidate Ashok Tanwar and the veteran Congress leader Selja, the electioneering here is revolving around Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Congress candidate Selja Kumari addressing gathering during election campaign in Sirsa ,Haryana. (Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

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Updated on May 20, 2024 08:14 AM IST

ByVishal Joshi, Sirsa

Cong’s Deepender, BJP’s Ashok files nomination papers in Haryana

The BJP nominee from Sirsa, Ashok, was accompanied by Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Barala, BJP candidate from Hisar, Ranjit Singh Chautala, and Sirsa MLA and Haryana Lokhit Party chief Gopal Kanda when he filed his nomination papers

Congress candidate Deepender Singh Hooda was accompanied by his wife Hemsweta, his father, Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan and Rohtak MLA BB Batra while filing the nomination papers in Haryana on Saturday. (Manoj Dhaka/HT)

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Updated on May 05, 2024 06:12 AM IST

BySunil Rahar, Rohtak

In his 4th party switch, Ashok Tanwar now joins saffron fold

Tanwar joined the BJP in the presence of Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar among other leaders and lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, saying the country has changed in the last 10 years

Former Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar. (ANI)

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Updated on Jan 21, 2024 06:56 AM IST

BySunil Rahar, Rohtak

Setback for AAP in Haryana, campaign committee chief Ashok Tanwar quits party

Former Congress MP cites Aam Aadmi Party aligning with Congress for elections as reason, expected to join BJP

Ashok Tanwar is a former Haryana Congress president who had resigned from the party in 2019. He had switched over to the Trinamool Congress in November 2021 after which he joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in April 2022. (HT file photo)

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Published on Jan 18, 2024 03:25 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Will support Haryana govt over SYL, Chandigarh issues: Ashok Tanwar

He said the Prime Minister should come forward and hold a meeting with the chief ministers over the pending water disputes between the two states

“This is an inter-state subject and until the governments of both the states come together to resolve the issue, the Centre should play its role,” said Aam Aadmi Party’s Haryana campaign committee chairman Ashok Tanwar during an interaction with the media in Chandigarh.

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Updated on Oct 06, 2023 09:08 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Karnal

Ashok Tanwar joins AAP, months after switching over to TMC from Congress

Ashok Tanwar met AAP convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Ashok Tanwar meet AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday.

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Updated on Apr 04, 2022 05:25 PM IST

Byhindustantimes.com | Written by Sohini Goswami, New Delhi

CLP empowers Sonia to name its leader

Even though the Haryana Congress legislature party at its meeting here on Friday resolved that party chief Sonia Gandhi will choose the leader in the House, demand from MLAs belonging to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda camp to take into consideration the choice of legislators as well was loud and clear.

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Updated on Nov 01, 2019 11:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByRajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh

Party post first, loyalty later: Those who dumped Congress on losing ranks

Ashok Tanwar, who quit the Congress soon after being ousted as the party chief in Haryana , was not the first congressman to resign and shift loyalty on being stripped of an organizational post.

Former Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar quit the party on being stripped of the post.(PTI file photo)

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Updated on Oct 30, 2019 10:12 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAurangzeb Naqshbandi

Haryana assembly elections: Key to power in JJP’s hands now, says Ashok Tanwar

Former Congress leader made these remarks while commenting on the party-wise trends of the Haryana assembly polls.

Former Congress leader Ashok Tanwar on Thursday asserted that key to power is in Jannayak Janata Party’s (JJP) hands in the state.(PTI)

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Published on Oct 24, 2019 06:02 PM IST

New Delhi | ByAsian News International

Haryana election result: Did Congress miss a trick by bringing in Hooda too late in the day?

The party replaced state chief Ashok Tanwar, who remained at the helm for six years, with former Union minister Kumari Selja, and named Hooda as the head of the election management committee, on September 4 — six weeks before the October 21 polls.

Hooda, in a short span of time, appears to have ensured that the Congress has regained lost ground and is giving a tough fight to the BJP, which otherwise seemed set for a resounding majority. (Photo @INCHaryana)

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Updated on Oct 24, 2019 12:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAurangzeb Naqshbandi

INLD’s 2 former Sirsa MPs join Congress

In a major setback to the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), its two former Sirsa MPs Charanjeet Singh Rori and Sushil Indora joined the Congress in the presence of party’s state president Kumari Selja on Tuesday. Selja welcomed the two leaders into the party fold saying they will strengthen the party in Sirsa district.

Former INLD MP Charanjeet Singh Rori joining the Congress in the presence of party’s Haryana chief Kumari Selja in Sirsa on Tuesday.(Manoj Dhaka/HT)

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Published on Oct 08, 2019 11:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Rohtak | ByHT Correspondent, Rohtak

Ashok Tanwar, who quit Congress, won’t be allowed into BJP, says Haryana CM Khattar

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday ruled out any possibility of inducting former state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar into the BJP fold after the latter quit his party.

The chief minister said it is not the first time that accusations of corruption in ticket distribution in the Congress have been made.(HT Photo)

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Published on Oct 05, 2019 05:51 PM IST

Karnal | ByPress Trust of India

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Mumbai: Police detain activists who were staging a protest against the tree-cutting, being carried out for the Metro car shed project, at Aarey colony in Mumbai, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019.(PTI file photo)

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Updated on Oct 05, 2019 05:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Former Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar quits party ahead of state polls

In his four-page resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Tanwar said, “Congress is going through existential crises, not because of its political opponents but because of serious internal contradiction.”

Tanwar had protested outside Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s house in New Delhi on Wednesday over the distribution of tickets for the Haryana assembly elections. ( Photo Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

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Updated on Oct 05, 2019 08:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Haryana assembly election 2019: Ashok Tanwar resigns from Congress poll panels, says ‘left with no option’

In a veiled attack at Bhupinder Singh Hooda, AshokTanwar on Thursday dispatched a two-page letter to Sonia Gandhi, listing his grievances and alleging that a section of party leaders in Haryana attacked him and “sabotaged” the Congress when he was the state chief.

Ashok Tanwar with his outside Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence at Akbar Road in New Delhi on Wednesday.(Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

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Updated on Oct 04, 2019 12:43 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByPawan Sharma

In Sonia Gandhi’s Congress overhaul, new chiefs in many states

Apart from election-bound Haryana where senior leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda has raised a banner of revolt against state unit chief Ashok Tanwar, Gandhi is set to appoint new presidents in many states, including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Congress as party boss Sonia Gandhi.(PTI Photo)

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Updated on Sep 04, 2019 09:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAurangzeb Naqshbandi

Hooda reiterates his newfound rebel image

By including the majority of sitting MLAs besides former MLAs and MPs from across the state, the former chief minister has also tried to convey his wide reach and acceptability to the high command.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda(HT File)

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Updated on Aug 24, 2019 11:24 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByRajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh

Haryana Congress chief slams Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s rally

Ashok Tanwar, who was in Sirsa to address booth-level party workers, said without naming Bhupinder Singh Hooda or his son Deepender Singh Hooda that some Congress leaders who recently organised a rally were trying to weaken the Congress in the state that goes to the polls later this year.

Terming the rally organized by two-time Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda an act of indiscipline, state Congress unit chief Ashok Tanwar said on Monday that he would raise the matter with the party high command.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 20, 2019 01:04 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Hisar | ByBhaskar Mukherjee

‘Real indiscipline’: Haryana Congress chief on Bhupinder Hooda

At a rally in Rohtak on Sunday, Bhupinder Hooda, a two-time Haryana CM, had said that the Congress had lost its way and declared himself as the chief ministerial candidate for state polls “with or without” his party.

Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar on Monday criticized former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for taking a stand opposite to the party on nullification of Article 370.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 17, 2020 08:12 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Haryana | ByBhaskar Mukherjee

Hooda plays hardball, but may not announce new party tomorrow

There has been speculation about Hooda announcing his own party at Sunday’s rally, billed as a show of strength by him ahead of the assembly elections due later this year.

Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda addressing the Worker’s Meeting at the new Anaj Mandi in Rohtak on Sunday. August 04, 2019.(Photo by Manoj Dhaka/HindustanTimes)

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Updated on Aug 17, 2019 01:45 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAurangzeb Naqshbandi

Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar locks horns with AICC over poll panel

On Sunday, Haryana Congress in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad had told reporters in Delhi that the “committee” in question was set up without “any authorisation of the party high command.”

Congress suffered the worst ever defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, losing all 10 parliamentary seats in Haryana, with Ashok Tanwar as the state unit chief.(HT File)

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Published on Jul 09, 2019 12:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByPawan Sharma, Chandigarh

Congress attacks Khattar govt after murder of its leader

Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar said the party would launch a statewide agitation if the culprits were not brought to book within 24 hours.

Relatives of Congress leader Vikas Chaudhary mourn his death in Faridabad on Thursday. (Subhash Sharma/HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 28, 2019 12:10 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent

Haryana Congress leader Vikas Chaudhary shot dead near Delhi

Vikas Chaudhary was hit by more than ten bullets by the men when he was parking his SUV outside a gym in Faridabad.

Haryana Congress spokesperson Vikas Chaudhary was shot dead by 2 assailants in Faridabad(Twitter/Vikas Chaudhary)

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Updated on May 26, 2020 09:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySunil Rahar

Under fire for Lok Sabha poll debacle, Haryana Congress chief reportedly said ‘shoot me’

A party leader who attended the meeting summoned Tuesday in New Delhi by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Haryana in-charge at the AICC, claimed Ashok Tanwar was targeted by some MLAs close to former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Facing flak over Congress’ loss in Haryana during the recently held Lok Sabha polls, state unit chief Ashok Tanwar said he will continue to work towards strengthening the party.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 07, 2019 09:25 AM IST

Chandigarh | ByPress Trust of India

Ahead of assembly polls, Congress’s Haryana unit set for overhaul

The political dynamics in Haryana has changed in the last few years and the state is witnessing a sharp division on caste lines between Jats and non-Jats. The political parties are now drafting their electoral strategies based on these calculations.

The Congress is contemplating major changes in its Haryana unit after its Lok Sabha performance, with assembly polls due in October in the state.(AFP File Photo)

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Updated on Jun 04, 2019 07:35 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAurangzeb Naqshbandi

Lok Sabha elections 2019: It’s battle of prestige for all on Chautalas’ home turf in Haryana

Congress’ candidate Ashok Tanwar who finished second with about 3.9 lakh votes in 2014 polls, hopes to have more votes this time.

Since its formation in 1967, the Sirsa parliamentary seat has never gone to the BJP but the party has hopes on the Modi wave.(Ht Photo)

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Updated on May 02, 2019 12:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times, SIRSA | ByRajesh Moudgil

Ajay Singh Yadav is Congress candidate for Gurgaon

Senior party leader Captain (retd) Ajay Yadav has been named as the candidate from Gurgaon, while Lalit Nagar has been fielded from Faridabad.

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Published on Apr 14, 2019 12:24 AM IST

Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent

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Former MP Ashok Tanwar had informally joined the Congress at Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Mahendragarh district on Thursday, dealing a setback to the BJP ahead of the assembly elections.

Just an hour ago around 1.45 pm, Tanwar addressed a rally in favour of BJP candidate Randhir Panihar in Hisar’s Nalwa, and he claimed that the BJP will form the government for the third time in Haryana.

Ashok Tanwar, who once served as the Haryana Congress president, resigned from the party in 2019.

In what is seen as a bipolar contest between a party hopper and the BJP candidate Ashok Tanwar and the veteran Congress leader Selja, the electioneering here is revolving around Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The BJP nominee from Sirsa, Ashok, was accompanied by Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Barala, BJP candidate from Hisar, Ranjit Singh Chautala, and Sirsa MLA and Haryana Lokhit Party chief Gopal Kanda when he filed his nomination papers

Tanwar joined the BJP in the presence of Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar among other leaders and lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, saying the country has changed in the last 10 years

Former Congress MP cites Aam Aadmi Party aligning with Congress for elections as reason, expected to join BJP

He said the Prime Minister should come forward and hold a meeting with the chief ministers over the pending water disputes between the two states

Ashok Tanwar met AAP convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Even though the Haryana Congress legislature party at its meeting here on Friday resolved that party chief Sonia Gandhi will choose the leader in the House, demand from MLAs belonging to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda camp to take into consideration the choice of legislators as well was loud and clear.

Ashok Tanwar, who quit the Congress soon after being ousted as the party chief in Haryana , was not the first congressman to resign and shift loyalty on being stripped of an organizational post.

Former Congress leader made these remarks while commenting on the party-wise trends of the Haryana assembly polls.

The party replaced state chief Ashok Tanwar, who remained at the helm for six years, with former Union minister Kumari Selja, and named Hooda as the head of the election management committee, on September 4 — six weeks before the October 21 polls.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday ruled out any possibility of inducting former state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar into the BJP fold after the latter quit his party.

Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion at this hour curated for you. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

In his four-page resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Tanwar said, “Congress is going through existential crises, not because of its political opponents but because of serious internal contradiction.”

In a veiled attack at Bhupinder Singh Hooda, AshokTanwar on Thursday dispatched a two-page letter to Sonia Gandhi, listing his grievances and alleging that a section of party leaders in Haryana attacked him and “sabotaged” the Congress when he was the state chief.

Apart from election-bound Haryana where senior leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda has raised a banner of revolt against state unit chief Ashok Tanwar, Gandhi is set to appoint new presidents in many states, including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

By including the majority of sitting MLAs besides former MLAs and MPs from across the state, the former chief minister has also tried to convey his wide reach and acceptability to the high command.

Ashok Tanwar, who was in Sirsa to address booth-level party workers, said without naming Bhupinder Singh Hooda or his son Deepender Singh Hooda that some Congress leaders who recently organised a rally were trying to weaken the Congress in the state that goes to the polls later this year.

At a rally in Rohtak on Sunday, Bhupinder Hooda, a two-time Haryana CM, had said that the Congress had lost its way and declared himself as the chief ministerial candidate for state polls “with or without” his party.

There has been speculation about Hooda announcing his own party at Sunday’s rally, billed as a show of strength by him ahead of the assembly elections due later this year.

On Sunday, Haryana Congress in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad had told reporters in Delhi that the “committee” in question was set up without “any authorisation of the party high command.”

Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar said the party would launch a statewide agitation if the culprits were not brought to book within 24 hours.

Vikas Chaudhary was hit by more than ten bullets by the men when he was parking his SUV outside a gym in Faridabad.

A party leader who attended the meeting summoned Tuesday in New Delhi by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Haryana in-charge at the AICC, claimed Ashok Tanwar was targeted by some MLAs close to former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

The political dynamics in Haryana has changed in the last few years and the state is witnessing a sharp division on caste lines between Jats and non-Jats. The political parties are now drafting their electoral strategies based on these calculations.

Congress’ candidate Ashok Tanwar who finished second with about 3.9 lakh votes in 2014 polls, hopes to have more votes this time.

Senior party leader Captain (retd) Ajay Yadav has been named as the candidate from Gurgaon, while Lalit Nagar has been fielded from Faridabad.

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