Congress rumblings grow, Ghulam Nabi Azad for internal polls

Days after the Congress managed to win simply 19 seats, the bottom tally among the many high 4 events within the Bihar meeting polls, Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday stated elections weren’t received by adopting a “five-star culture and party office-bearers should be elected”.

Azad, one of many 23 leaders who signed a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Augustdemanding main adjustments within the celebration’s functioning, additionally stated the “general impression (is) that there is no president of the party.”

“Both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi said that party elections should be held in October. But we said that the election should be held after six months due to Covid-19,” he added.

The celebration contested the Bihar elections, which had been received by a coalition of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (United), or JD (U), as a part of an alliance led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal and comprising the Left events. Of the 70 seats it contested, it managed to win simply 19.

Azad claimed he didn’t blame Sonia or Rahul Gandh for the setback. But his criticism of the choice means of workplace bearers, in accordance with some celebration insiders, is a veiled protest in opposition to the present system.

Senior chief and former overseas minister Salman Khurshid hit again at Azad, rejected any notion of a management disaster within the Congress and stated all-round help for Sonia and Rahul Gandhi is “apparent to anyone who is not blind”.

Khurshid stated public statements by Congress leaders vital of it harm the celebration, in an indirect reference to latest statements by Kapil Sibal and others.

Asked about feedback by Sibal and one other senior chief, P Chidambaram, on the Congress’s poor exhibiting within the Bihar election and up to date by-polls, he stated he can not disagree with what they’ve stated, however requested why anybody has to exit and inform the media and the world that “we need to do this”.

“Analysis is done all the time, there is no quarrel about analysis. It will be done. The leadership, of which all these people are a part, will appropriately look at what may have gone wrong, how we could have improved, and that will happen in the normal course, we needn’t talk about it in the public,” stated Khurshid, a everlasting invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), he celebration’s highest decision-making physique.

In an unique interview with ANI, Azad stated: “Office bearers should understand their responsibility. Till the time office bearers are appointed, they won’t go to the grassroots. But if all office bearers are elected, then they will understand their responsibility. Right now, anyone gets any post in the party. Our people have lost the connection with the grassroots.”

He additionally stated: “Polls aren’t won by five-star culture. Problem with leaders today is if they get a party ticket, they first book a five-star hotel. They won’t go if there’s a rough road. Till the time 5-star culture is given up, one can’t win elections.”

Azad on Sunday additionally supported Chidambaram and Sibal’s opinion concerning the want for “retrospection” within the celebration. He stated it was “not wrong but it also does not mean changing the top leadership”. He maintained that the “medicine for the party” was to conduct organizational elections at completely different ranges.

“Retrospection means there should be a discussion on why we lost in Bihar, why we won few seats in Madhya Pradesh. And after a discussion on these, how to apply the conclusion we get from the discussion on these issues– this is what we have to do,” Azad stated.

Sibal, vital of the present state of functioning within the Congress, stated folks in Bihar didn’t think about Congress to be an efficient different, including that the time for “introspection” was over. Chidambaram too, expressed concern over the ballot outcomes, and requested for a complete assessment on why the RJD-Congress-Left alliance misplaced regardless of being so near victory.

“We all are worried about losses, especially about Bihar and by-poll results. I don’t blame the leadership of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. Office-bearers should understand that their responsibility begins with their appointment. They should love the party. I quote a couplet: ‘Ye ishq nahi aasaan, bas itna samajh lije. Ik aag ka darya hai aur doob ke jaana hai,’”, Azad stated.

“Love should be for one’s party, profession and country,” Azad added.