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Sharing a lesser known & welcome fact — the @ArvindKejriwal-led Delhi Government doubled its revenues to ₹60,000 cr… https://t.co/7zYAooV1EA — Milind Deora मिलिंद देवरा (@milinddeora) 1581867374000

Brother, I would never undermine Sheila Dikshit’s stellar performance as Delhi CM. That’s your specialty. But it’s… https://t.co/cR5n5pYOar — Milind Deora मिलिंद देवरा (@milinddeora) 1581916192000

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I support the move on #JammuAndKashmir & #Ladakh and its full integration into union of India. Would have been bet… https://t.co/XyXqNzZdMV — Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) 1565097594000

United we stand! Jai Hind #Article370 — Aditi Singh (@AditiSinghINC) 1564997764000

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Look what I found, a picture from our trip to Surat by road from Mumbai to attend 125th year of Salt Satyagraha. Fr… https://t.co/p67toNveKY — Madhu Goud Yaskhi (@MYaskhi) 1581001364000

NEW DELHI: With yet another young Congress leader — Milind Deora this time — getting into a war of words with party member Ajay Maken over the former’s praise for AAP’s governance in Delhi, the Congress’ younger leaders seem to be running out of patience with the old guard.Deora's broadside isn't the first that's been fired by a Congress leader who's less than 50 years — his praise for AAP's fiscal prudence drawing a sharp retort from Maken who asked him to leave the party first before praising another party. That in turn drew a riposte from Deora who accused Maken of undermining former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit's performance.Maken was a minister in Sheila Dikshit's first cabinet in Delhi. He later got elected to Parliament and held several important portfolios under UPA I and UPA II. The leader had alleged inconsistencies in the claims made by the Kejriwal government of making revolutionary changes in financial and other sectors.Just last week, the Madhya Pradesh Congress saw its stalwarts — Jyotiraditya Scindia and CM Kamal Nath — having a go at each other, with the former threatening to launch an agitation if Nath failed to fulfil manifesto promises, including farm loan waivers and regularising the guest teachers, which led the latter to dare Scindia to go ahead.(let him hit the streets if he wants to)," Nath, who was in Delhi to attend the Madhya Pradesh Coordination Committee meeting, told reporters. Scindia, who was also present at the meeting, left early. Nath earlier said "Manifesto is for five years, right? It's not for five months."Scindia has been openly critical of the MP CM in the past as well.In neighbouring Rajasthan, there seems to be no love lost between CM Ashok Gehlot and deputy CM Sachin Pilot , with the latter critical of the state’s law and order situation and just last month, taking potshots at the CM for the death of 100 infants in December last year. Gehlot is also home minister of the state."It is true that we should pay more attention to law and order. A lot of incidents have just taken place which should not be repeated..." Pilot said.In January too, Pilot took a jibe at the Rajasthan CM, signs of a continuing rift between the two leaders, both of whom had sought the CM's post after the Congress won the assembly polls in 2019."We talk about changing the wrong tradition. We talk about avoiding '', which is a good thing, but at the same time if there is no tradition to wipe tears of those who lost their children then that tradition should also be broken," Pilot told reporters."God forbid, children should not die...There is no programme to mourn deaths of children but it is the responsibility of all of us to wipe tears of grieving parents...We all should collectively discharge this responsibility," he added.Last year's abrogation of Article 370 in August saw several Congress leaders defy the party line and support the government. Among them were Scindia, former Lok Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and Rae Bareli MLA Aditi Singh. In fact, it's not just younger leaders who defied the party line on Article 370 — senior leaders like Janardan Dwivedi and Anil Shastri also supported the BJP move.That the Congress is divided into camps is the party's best known open secret. Last year, Scindia issued an ultimatum to the party high command — read the Gandhis — to make him the MPCC chief or he might "look for other options". The resignation of Rahul Gandhi as Congress President following the 2019 Lok Sabha debacle allowed the party's old guard to convince Sonia Gandhi to take up reins again while several of Rahul’s appointees in the party hierarchy either quit or were forced out since Sonia returned as party president.