The Congress party workers have came out openly against what they call as ‘Parachute’ candidate field by the party for the Arang Assembly seat which goes to polls in second phase of polling in the State.

On Saturday, when  AICC In-charge for Chhattisgarh , P L Punia arrived from New Delhi in Raipur , the party workers from Arang staged protest and raised slogans against the party for giving poll ticket to State Congress Working President Shiv Dehriya from Arang seat.

The protesting workers said that those serving the party for years with dedication are being denied party ticket in the name of introducing candidates from outside. They should be given chance to be in election fray.

Shiv Dehriya has been active in Arang assembly constituency for past few days, which has led to the anger among the party workers who feared that the local party leaders would be denied ticket once again.

The Arang party workers proposed three candidates mainly Narayan Kurrey, Piyush Kosare and Vedram Manhar and warned that if party brings ‘parachute candidates', then it may face backlash.

As per party insiders, the Arang Congress workers are all supporters of named candidates and they are not in favour of fielding any candidate from outside their area.

Meanwhile, a similar situation also arose at the Rajiv Bhawan, the State Congress headquarters , after the leaders reached the office, where the Arang region Congress workers and leaders again staged demonstration after which the senior leaders held talks and pacified them.

AICC In-charge for Chhattisgarh, P L Punia having reached Raipur for the preparation of Rahul Gandhi visit to state, said that everyone has the right to free expression and can use it at anytime.

At present, no discussion has taken place for selection of candidate for Arang constituency. Soon, the list of candidates of Congress party would be released for first phase of polling.

On Ajit Jogi’s U-turn not to contest polls , he said that people understand whatever is happening.