Sacked Bihar Congress chief Ashok Choudhary blames CP Joshi

NEW DELHI: Sacked Bihar Congress chief Ashok Choudhary on Thursday accused senior party colleague C P Joshi of instigating the Congress leadership against him, saying no one can question his dedication to the party.

“I am a hardcore Congress party worker,” Choudhary told ET over the phone, a day after he was sacked by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. “But I am pained the way I was removed from the post of BPCC (Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee) president yesterday.

I will soon meet party high command to place my side of story.” Choudhary blamed Joshi, who is AICC general secretary in-charge of Bihar, for misleading high command about him.


“He has already ruined the party in North East, West Bengal and Manipur,” he said.

“I was made BPCC secretary in 2000. Then I was elevated as BPCC general secretary in 2005. Before becoming BPCC president in 2013, I was BPCC vice president. There is no reason to doubt my dedication to the party.”

Choudhary, who was a minister in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government before Kumar parted ways with the Congress and joined the NDA, recalled his family’s long association with the Congress, saying is father Mahavir Prasad served the party for about seven decades.

Prasad was an MLA in Bihar for nine terms. Sources in BPCC said a good number of Congress MLAs in Bihar are in touch with Choudhary, which makes his successor Kaukab Qudari’s task even more difficult. The party has 27 MLAs in the Bihar assembly.