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Uttar Pradesh Congress president Raj Babbar was also present during the meeting. Mr Scindia was appointed as party in-charge for Western Uttar Pradesh just ahead of Lok Sabha polls.
During the meeting, Congress MLA KK Sharma got into an argument with Mr Scindia. The spat occurred after the lawmaker complained to Mr Scindia about the working of senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad.
The Congress General Secretary objected to the comments made by Mr Sharma following which an argument broke out between the two. Mr Scindia later asked Mr Sharma to get out of the meeting.
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Mr Sharma also accused Mr Azad of selling tickets and even questioned Mr Scindia’s style of working.
During the meeting, Ghaziabad Congress president Harendra Kasana complained against the party candidate Dolly Sharma. Miffed by his complainst, Dolly Sharma’s father Narendra Bhardwaj got into a verbal spat with Mr Kasana after getting out of the meeting.
However, when asked about the incident, both the leaders dismissed it saying that it was an internal matter of the party.
During the meeting, the leaders termed communalism, a weak organisation and preference to outsiders as candidate as some key reasons for the party”s disastrous performance in the state.