Chandigarh, April 18 -- Intense factionalism within the Haryana unit of the Congress party over the distribution of tickets has led to a delay in announcing the names of its candidates for nine out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats that it will be contesting in the State. This has also triggered restlessness among the party's leaders, workers, supporters and their alliance partner.
In Haryana, Congress is fighting the polls in alliance with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), with the former contesting from nine of 10 seats, while AAP has already named former Rajya Sabha member and state party chief Sushil Gupta from Kurukshetra.
BJP took the early initiative and announced its list of candidates on all the 10 Lok Sabha seats of the State long time back. Janna...