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Congress in Himachal: A soul without body as party marks one year without organisation

Shimla, Nov 6 (UNI) The Himachal Pradesh Congress today completes one full year without a formal organisation — a political irony that has left the grand old party looking like, in the words of one insider, “a soul without a body.”
Exactly a year ago, on this day, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge dissolved the party’s entire state structure — from the Pradesh Congress Committee to district and block units — with the promise that a new organisation would be announced “very soon.”
One year later, that promise remains unfulfilled.
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