Cong snubs party leader for comments against Pawar

New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI) Snubbing senior party leader
Satyavrat Chaturvedi for his attack on India's Agriculture
Minister Sharad Pawar over handling of the drought situation,
Congress party Thursday asked partymen "not to express their
so called personal views in public".

Distancing the party from Chaturvedi's remarks, All
India Congress Committee (AICC) media department chairman
Janardan Dwivedi said, "Whatever the party had to say on the
drought situation and other related issues, it has said
through the Congress Working Committee (CWC) resolution.

"Whatever party would like to say in the future, it
would say it officially. So far as expressing personal views
are concerned, it advises all Congressmen not to express their
so called personal views in public or through the media,"
Dwivedi said in a clear message that personal barbs would not
be acceptable.

Dwivedi's sharp reaction came a day after Chaturvedi
raised a controversy by attacking Pawar accusing him of
misrepresenting facts on availability of sugar as also on the
drought situation.

An angry Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had promptly
demanded disciplinary action against Chaturvedi whose
statement had come at a time when the issue of alliance
between the two parties is being decided by Congress high
command, giving the impression that there was more to the
statement of Chaturvedi. (More) PTI