Loyalty can pay rich dividends

Loyalty can pay rich dividends. A cook of the Gandhi family who has worked for Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and now Sonia Gandhi has been rewarded with a ticket to the Himachal Assembly polls for his son.

Padam Ram has been a cook with the Gandhi family for 30 years now. He already has a petrol pump in his name, and now his son Prakash Chand Karad, is the proud possessor of an Assembly Ticket. But Prakash denies all charges of favouritism.


“It is a personal thing. Someone's father can be related to CM also or even Dhumal has children. That has nothing to do with this and it is nothing like that. I have been working for 15 years for Arki constituency as a Congress representative,” says Prakash.

Three-time Congress MLA from Arki and Deputy Speaker in the outgoing assembly Dharampal Thakur says it is a big blow to him.

He has now thrown his hat into the ring as an independent candidate.
“People know better. It is a democracy. People are aware. They know what their rights are. And also what parties are doing,” says Dharampal.

His supporters say a cook's son got the ticket only because of favoritism. They even say that Dharampal has got a raw deal and has been cheated by the Congress High Command.

Courtesy:ibnlive.com
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