A prominent Youth Congress activist hand-picked by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to handle organisational elections has been missing from a hotel in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi town, according to police.
Nishant Patel went missing on Monday morning from Utsav Hotel in Hardoi, about 100 km from here, where he had been staying for the past few days to conduct the local organisational election scheduled later this month.
He is stated to have been hand-picked by Rahul Gandhi as local returning officer for electing Youth Congress officer bearers.
Youth Congress state returning officer Arvind Chaudhary, who is camping in Lucknow, wonders where Mr. Patel could have vanished.
Mr. Patel had been holding discussions with party members until about 2 a.m. Monday, hours before he disappeared.
