Kumari Selja appointed Haryana Cong chief; Gandhi loyalist Ashok Tanwar out

Most people say change is for the better but that it has come too late

Exactly why has Kumari Selja been appointed chief of the Haryana Congress and Rahul Gandhi loyalist Ashok Tanwar thrown out? Wags in the Congress party say it is because Selja supporters know ‘mere paas maa hai’ (I have my mother). When Sonia Gandhi took ill in the Lok Sabha, it was to Selja that she turned who escorted her out of the Parliament House and solicitously waited with her for her car. On several other occasions, Selja has been by Sonia Gandhi’s side. She has been made chief though she too is a dynast — her father was a senior