New Delhi: The ride has not been very easy Congress' Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is hoping to retain the Chief Minister's post in Haryana.
Sevral non-Jat leaders from the state have conveyed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi that the Chief Minister need not be from the Jat community as Jats this time voted for Om Prakash Chautala's INLD.
Meanwhile, Union Minister Kumari Shelja - a Dalit - is being seen as a serious contender for the post even as resentment against Hooda seems to growing with 10 MLA's questioning his style of functioning. A round of meetings was held at Mohisina Kidwai's house to sort out the problem.
This has left Kuldeep Bishnoi's Haryana Janhit Congress with the only option of sitting in the Opposition. Hooda and his rival in the party, Birendra Singh, who lost the election to INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala, will meet Sonia Gandhi on Saturday.
The Congress in Haryana had Friday staked claim before Governor Jagannath Pahadia after it got the support of all seven independent candidates who won the October 13 Assembly election. The Congress bagged 40 seats in the 90-member Assembly and fell six seats short of a simple majority in the house.
Hooda had led the party government in the state since March 2005 and had got the previous Assembly dissolved seven months ahead of schedule to seek early Assembly polls and the Congress wanted to cash on its nine seats out of 10 success in the May Lok Sabha poll.
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