"Will harm the Congress...": Sirsa MP Kumari Selja on Kiran Choudhry joining BJP

Sirsa (Haryana) [India], June 19 : Kiran Choudhry was "treated unfairly" in the party, said senior Congress leader and Sirsa MP Kumari Selja after the sitting MLA along with her daughter joined the BJP in the national capital on Wednesday.
Kiran Choudhry, MLA from Tosham, which falls under the Bhiwani district, along with her daughter Shruti, the former MP from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency, has resigned from the primary membership of the Congress on Tuesday. Shruti was also the working president of the Haryana unit of the Congress.
Selja said, "It is sad. She (Kiran) has been a veteran leader of the party. She had taken Bansi Lal's politics forward. This will harm the party. Her daughter was not given the ticket, this could be the reason for her leaving. I say that if Shruti had gotten the ticket, she would have won with a huge majority. I don't know the reason behind her leaving but she (Kiran) has been treated unfairly."
Notably, Kiran Choudhry is the daughter-in-law of former Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal.
However, Haryana Congress president Udai Bhan said that the exit of Kiran Choudhry will not affect the Congress at all.
"No this isn't affecting Congress at all...she said that Congress has no future in Haryana so she is going there where she thinks her future is secured...she left because her daughter was not given a ticket...this has nothing to do with ideology," he said.
Congress Assandh MLA, Shamsher Singh Gogi also termed her exit "unfortunate", asserting that the party leadership must find a solution to it.
"I feel sad and I also regret. She was in Congress, her whole life and has also struggled...if she had some issues, she should have met the high command. High command also needs to seriously take cognizance of such incidents...it is the duty of our leadership to find a solution to this...this is my personal opinion. I don't know what happened exactly but something has happened...this is very unfortunate," Gogi said.
Meanwhile, former Minority Affairs Minister and BJP leader, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi slammed the Congress and said, "This time the public gave a bigger mandate to Congress than the last time. But along with this, their ego has also increased. There is silence at their entry gate and a huge crowd at the exit gate."
In the last parliamentary elections, the Congress had won five Lok Sabha seats out of 10 in Haryana against none in 2019.
Meanwhile, Kiran Choudhry, after joining the BJP, claimed that for a few years, Haryana Congress has become an "individual-centric party."
"I was a very dedicated worker of the Congress. I dedicated my life to Congress with hard work. But for a few years, I watched the Haryana Congress become an individual-centric party. They didn't want Congress to go ahead and follow such policies. So, you can understand that Congress would have never progressed in Haryana. Big leaders quit the party due to them...I took this step to ensure that my workers get their due rights, equal rights," she said.