JAMMU, Oct. 17 -- A fresh controversy has hit the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir after veteran leader and former minister Yogesh Sawhney was left without a district in the allotment of observers for the party's "Vote Bachao-Desh Bachao" campaign, even though his name was on the original list.
On Friday, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary K C Venugopal released a list of 208 observers for the campaign across the country. Three leaders from Jammu and Kashmir were named: Firoze Khan at serial number 76, Yogesh Sawhney at 178 and Abid Kashmiri at 205. When districts were allotted to the observers today, Firoze Khan and Abid Kashmiri were assigned theirs, but Sawhney's name did not figure in the allotment.
The omission has ra...