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Najma's remarks draw flak

By Our Staff Correspondent

DEHRA DUN, FEB. 25. Five general secretaries of the Uttaranchal Pradesh Congress Committee led by the Minister of State for Industrial Development, Kishore Upadhyay, today urged the party high command to expel the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, Najma Heptullah, from the Congress for her anti-party activities.

Briefing reporters, the party general secretary, Dhirendra Pratap, said that Ms Heptullah's charge of having been "humiliated" was indicative of her opportunistic tendencies. The Congress had all along helped, Ms Heptullah, to become a member of the Rajya Sabha five times and then its Deputy Chairman. "How can the party be accused of having humiliated such a person?" he asked.

The moral ethics of the BJP had been more than exposed with the induction and then ouster of D. P. Yadav, and Ms Heptullah seems to be hobnobbing with the saffron brigade that has lost the confidence of the people, he said. Describing, Sonia Gandhi, as the most effective and beloved leader, Mr. Pratap, said the return of Congress rule in 16 States after she became the party president was enough proof that she was dynamic and understood the pulse of the nation.

He further said that the Uttaranchal Congress would gherao the residence of the Prime Minister on February 28 to press for the early withdrawal of CBI cases against the Uttarakhand agitationists, a better deal for Tehri Dam oustees and an economic package for the rapid development of the State.

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