BJP is LeBron James of election management, Congress a dilettante: Sanjay Jha

Drawing consideration to the BJP’s pole place in election administration, Congress member Sanjay Jha in contrast the occasion efficiency to one of many greats of American basketball: LeBron James. In comparability, the previous occasion spokesperson mentioned the Congress appeared like “dilly-dallying dilettantes”.

“The BJP is the LeBron James of election management and organisational agility. By comparison, we look like dilly-dallying dilettantes. It is an asymmetrical war,” mentioned Jha in his column for scroll.in.

The Congress has nonetheless not addressed the management challenge within the occasion, with Sonia Gandhi holding the reins as interim president after Rahul Gandhi resigned taking accountability for the dismal efficiency within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. At the occasion’s high physique meet not too long ago, there was once more the murmur of Rahul Gandhi returning as president, nevertheless the rumours have been strongly denied by the Congress.

Zoya Hasan, who taught at JNU and authored a e-book on the Congress, advised HT there’s a bigger downside with the occasion.

“…The basic problem is that Congress doesn’t have a full time president for more than a year which should be unacceptable at any time but more so when the ruling party has a strong leader and the leading opposition party has none. It’s odd for a party to have an interim president (Sonia Gandhi) and de facto president (Rahul Gandhi) but no full time president. No political party can function without a full time president,” mentioned Hasan.

The BJP has already kickstarted its digital ‘Jan samvad’ to unfold the its message with elections in Bihar and Bengal forward. There is not any such exercise seen on the Congress aspect.

Turning highlight on the Congress rule – 55 years since Independence – Jha mentioned the occasion must step up “not through an occasional sugar-rush or Twitter tantrums, but a bold imaginative structural transformation”.

The chief was eliminated as occasion spokesperson after he wrote two articles in a significant day by day that predicted the Congress’s political oblivion due to its “extraordinary lassitude and lackadaisical attitude”.

He complained in regards to the lack of inner democracy within the occasion and referred to as for renewal of political technique and introduced the main target again on the management challenge.

In an earlier tweet, he additionally made it clear that he will likely be “throwing his hat in the ring” as a candidate for the Congress Working Committee – the very best decision-making physique within the grand outdated occasion – as and when the polls are held.

Jha, Mumbai-based former banker-turned-Congress politician, in his newest column, referred to as the Congress “India’s most powerful brand”, however added that it wanted a “dramatic reinvention”.

Underlining that he’s not becoming a member of the BJP or another occasion, Jha mentioned those that criticised him for talking the “truth” haven’t cared to grasp him. As a method ahead, he steered that they revisit My Experiments With Truth and Discovery of India, books by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, respectively.

The occasion chief, who calls himself “hardcore Nehruvian”, additionally supplied hope, saying one can at all times begin anew.

“It is never too late to make a new beginning. The ostrich is the fastest animal on two legs, reportedly clocking a mind-numbing 75 km an hour. The giant bird is also known for burying its head in the sand. The Congress must make a choice,” wrote Jha.