The Congress in Bihar continues to be assailed by internal strife even as the assembly polls are merely days away.
On Thursday, party workers staged a protest in Patna, demanding the immediate replacement of AICC Bihar in-charge in Bihar, Krishna Allavaru, whom they accused of being a "corporate agent" and "sleeper cell of the RSS".
Allavaru, who hails from Karnataka, was the charge of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC). The party leadership, on Thursday, replaced him with Manish Sharma, who is considered close to Rahul Gandhi.
Allavaru continues to be in charge of Congress affairs in Bihar even as a section of party workers claim that he has messed up the party's prospects in the assembly polls.
Party leader Anand Madhab claimed that the momentum that had been built through Rahul Gandhi's Voter Adhikar Yatra has been wasted by Allavaru and sought his immediate removal from the post.
"Had the AICC in charge been a political person, like, say, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Singh Baghel or Randeep Surjewala, things would not have come to this pass. But Allavaru is not a political person. We suspect he has a corporate agenda... may be even a sleeper cell of the RSS who has been planted by forces from outside the party," he alleged.
Because of Allavaru's mismanagement, there has been so much confusion, Madhab claimed. According to him, Allavaru acted arbitrarily in ticket distribution and harmed the electoral prospects of the party.
