Jaipur, May 31 (Daily Bhaskar) : Just couple of days after T H Mustafa former Kerala Minister from Congress called party vice president Rahul Gandhi a joker and got suspended for it, an ex-minister and MLA from Sardarsheher (Churu), Bhanwarlal Sharma has attacked the Gandhi scion mocking him as an MD of "Congressi-Circus" and his aides as jokers.
A feedback-meeting was called by the state Congress unit in order to gauge the reasons for the party losing badly in the just concluded Lok Sabha Elections in the state.
Sharma responded in the above mentioned fashion to an accusation made by former MP from the area and veteran party leader Pratap Punia who alleged Bhanwarlal Sharma, Chnadrashekhar Baid and some other local party leaders worked for his defeat.
Talking to Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, Bhanwarlal Sharma said “ ask Punia, how could he manage one lakh seventy five thousand votes without support of local leaders like him. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been polled even 20,000 votes."
Congress state president Sachin Pilot was also present in the meeting.
Earlier on Thursday Former Kerala minister T H Mustafa was suspended from Congress for calling Rahul Gandhi a "joker" and saying he should be removed if he does not resign in the backdrop of the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls.
As the remark by Mustafa fuelled a controversy with some party leaders condemning it, a meeting of the KPCC held here to review the election performance of the party and the UDF led by it in the state felt the Congress leader had committed "a serious mistake" by making adverse comments againt Rahul.
Mustafa had prima facie breached the organisational discipline and decorum and he was being suspended from the primary membership, pending futher inquiry into his conduct, KPCC President V M Sudheeran said briefing reporters on the deliberations at the meet on the day.