Jammu, Dec. 11 -- A major controversy has erupted within the Jammu and Kashmir Congress after the Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) publicly disowned the party's Scheduled Caste Department chairperson, Karan Bhagat, for organising an event attended by Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Vikar Rasool Wani and J&K SC Cell in-charge Tina Choudhary.
Reacting sharply, Bhagat questioned the authority of JKPCC chief Tariq Hamid Karra to disown him.
"Who is Tariq Hamid Karra to disown me?" Bhagat told The Early Times. "I have been appointed as SC Department chairperson by the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
The Pradesh leadership has no authority to remove or disown me," he asserted, accusing Karra of lacking understanding of Congress ...