But now the party seems to have decided to let Chandel work “behind the scenes”.
Chandel was one of the 10 Lok Sabha MPs caught on camera in the cash-for-query scam in 2005. Last month the Delhi High Court ordered the police to complete investigation in the case in two months.
Chandel, meanwhile, is hard at work in Himachal. “I am not sitting back at home and I am taking things in my stride. I have been wrongly punished. Things are not in my favour but one day I will prove that I have done no wrong,” says Chandel.