Citing polls in Uttarakhand, Harish Rawat seeks to be relieved as Congress’s Punjab affairs in-charge

Punjab and Uttarakhand will go to polls next year.

Citing next year’s Assembly polls in Uttarakhand where he is the Congress’ campaign committee chairman, Harish Rawat has sought to be relieved as the in-charge of party affairs in Punjab. He said that to concentrate on the upcoming polls in Uttarakhand, it had been on his mind to seek to be relieved of the responsibility of the party’s Punjab affairs in-charge. “Yes, this is the reason,” the former Uttarakhand Chief Minister told reporters in Dehradun on Thursday when asked if he has sought to be relieved of the charge as Punjab affairs in-charge so that he could concentrate on the upcoming polls in his State.