Jammu, Dec. 12 -- Factional tensions within the Jammu and Kashmir Congress escalated sharply on Friday after AICC Scheduled Caste (SC) Department Incharge, Teena Choudhary, announced that she would file a formal complaint against the Union Territory Congress leadership for allegedly declaring her department's official programme "illegal."

Choudhary expressed strong resentment over a statement issued from the official email ID of the J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC), in which the SC Department's event was reportedly described as unauthorised.

Terming the move "unwarranted and defamatory," she said the UT leadership had "no authority" to question an event held under the mandate of the AICC SC Department.

"I will formally write a comp...