Congress workers on Tuesday created a ruckus at a seminar organised by Maharashtra Congress secretary Shehzad Poonawalla at Congress Bhavan where party MP Shashi Tharoor and Shehzad’s younger brother, Tehseen, were the main speakers. The workers shouted slogans saying that connections with Robert Vadra did not make the Poonawallas party bigwigs.
“You people cannot become our leaders only because you are someone’s relatives. What’s your contribution to the partyIJ” asked Congress workers when Shehzad began giving his introductory remarks at the seminar titled, ‘Social media and political communication’. Tehseen recently married Robert Vadra’s cousin Monica.
The party workers, raising slogans in support of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi, contended that local figures had not been taken into confidence before the seminar and that city leader Vishwajeet Kadam had been sidelined. They did not allow Shehzad to speak, which saw city Congress chief Ramesh Bagwe making an appeal to them to stop their sloganeering.
Seeing that the party workers were unrelenting, Tharoor took the mike and said that no city level official would be sidelined and that he was going to meet Kadam. “Shehzad has invited me for an interaction on social media. If you don’t want to listen, you can leave the auditorium,” he said. But the workers were still firm that they would not allow either of the brothers to speak and continued with their slogans.
