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โ€œSomething Missing In My Penanceโ€: Pawan Khera Tweets After Congress Denies Rajya Sabha Ticket

New Delhi: The Congress leadership has been chastised for leaving out important leaders, including party spokesperson Pawan Khera, when choosing Rajya Sabha candidates.

Mr Khera, who is known for his tenacious defense of the party line in TV debates and media appearances, showed his anger with a Hindi tweet after the Congress announced their selection of ten candidates for the upper house.

โ€œMaybe there is something missing in my penance,โ€ Mr Khera tweeted in Hindi.

Rajeev Shukla and Ranjeet Ranjan of Chhattisgarh, Ajay Maken of Haryana, Jairam Ramesh of Karnataka, Vivek Tankha of Madhya Pradesh, Imran Pratapgarhi of Maharashtra, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik, and Pramod Tiwari of Rajasthan, and former Home Minister P Chidambaram of Tamil Nadu are all candidates for the Congress.

The party has been chastised for its Rajasthan candidates, who are all from outside the state.

Sanyam Lodha, a Congress MLA from Rajasthanโ€™s Sirohi, said the party would have to explain why no one from the state was nominated. โ€œThe Congress party should explain why no Congress leader or worker from Rajasthan has been nominated as a candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections,โ€ he tweeted.

On social media, the party was chastised for refusing to accommodate veteran politicians Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma.

The partyโ€™s decision to nominate poet-turned-politician Imran Pratapgarhi was also criticized. โ€œOur 18 years of penance also fell short in front of Imran Bhai,โ€ party leader and prominent actor Nagma tweeted in response to Mr Kheraโ€™s tweet.

The partyโ€™s decision to nominate poet-turned-politician Imran Pratapgarhi was also criticized. โ€œOur 18 years of penance also fell short in front of Imran Bhai,โ€ party leader and prominent actor Nagma tweeted in response to Mr Kheraโ€™s tweet.

Nagma, who is the vice-president of the Congressโ€™ Mumbai chapter, said that when she joined the party in 2003, Sonia Gandhi โ€œpersonally committed to accommodatingโ€ her in the Rajya Sabha. She questioned whether she was โ€œless deservingโ€ because of Mr Pratapgarhiโ€™s choices.

Satish Poonia, the BJPโ€™s Rajasthan unit chief, slammed the Congressโ€™s choice of candidates. โ€œRajasthan hosted the Congressโ€™ Chintan Shivir. Take a look at another result of this way of thinking. Observe the local candidate quotaโ€ฆ.who will be โ€˜vocalโ€™ if there are no โ€˜localsโ€™? โ€œHe sent out a tweet.

On June 10, elections will be held for 57 Rajya Sabha seats across 15 states.

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