Congress needs surgery, senior 'doctors' not ready
New Delhi, June 14: The grand-old party of India, Congress, is evaluating reasons of its drubbing in the recently held Lok Sabha elections.
The evaluators have been getting feedback from different states that the oranisation needs a majot surgery for revival. Ironically, the senior Congress leaders are not ready for it.
It's notable that Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have asked leaders like Ahmed Patel, K C Venugopal, A K Antony to get feedback from the state units about the reasons of party's humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.
According to sources, the epitome of the feedback from all states is that the party's organisational structure has crumbled and there is a dire need to rebuild it from scratch, which would require a lots of efforts.
Congress workers want Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as CM face
The surprising part is that not even a single senior Congress leader is ready for it, say sources.
A political analyst, who is privy to the internal happenings of the Congress, tells OneIndia reasons of the senior Congress leaders' mindset.
"The
majority
of
the
leaders,
who
still
have
a
say
in
the
Congress'
affairs,
have
achieved
more
than
what
they
deserved.
People
don't
have
an
idea
of
wealth
that
scores
of
Congress
leaders
have
amassed.
I
am
still
to
come
across
a
single
Congress
leader
for
whom
politics
is
a
medium
of
social
service.
So,
why
would
they
bother
themselves
at
the
fag
end
of
their
political
career
to
do
the
painstaking
task
of
rebuilding
the
party?" asks
the
analyst.
"Instead of batting for the needed surgery, the satraps of the Congress have been confusing Gandhis by pretending to be their well-wishers. At the moment, they are using all their energy in finding an 'obidient' replacement of Congress President Rahul Gandhi to please Gandhis. In other words, they are safeguarding their own interests. For, till the Gandhis are in the commanding position, they will be able to call the shots within the party," says the analyst.
It's notable that soon after the Lok Sabha election results were declared, the reliable Congress sources had maintained that party will ask its state governments to take resignations of selected ministers and send them to work for the party.
So many days have passed but not a single Congress minister has expressed desire to work for strengthening the party. It's evident their bosses, who sit at Congress headquarters in Delhi, have not told them to do so.
Congress looks for another 'Manmohan Singh' to replace Rahul Gandhi
According to the sources, the feedbacks that the Congress has received from states should make a professional political party concerned about its future.
"One of the astonishing feedbacks is that the Congress didn't have adequate number of party workers to mange the booths on the polling day in many states including Delhi," says a source.
"The other important feedback is that Congress offices across the country are in dilapidated condition and in many cases they are being used by powerful leaders of the area as their personal offices," adds the source.
According to the sources, even the Congress is not analysing its defeat honestly.
For
example,
one
of
the
suggestions
for
analysing
the
defeat
was
that
senior
Congress
leaders
should
visit
villages
to
access
what
were
the
reasons
that
the
NYAY
(Nyuntam
Aay
Yojna)
or
Minimum
Income
Guarantee
failed
to
woo
the
voters
despite
it
offered
to
pay
every
poor
Rs.72000
per
year.
Today,
no
one
in
Congress
has
taken
the
initiative.
Majority of the Congress leaders who lost the elections have not bothered to visit villages of their constituencies, say sources.
The analyst says that the Congress leaders must learn a lesson from Smriti Irani, who kept on visiting villages as well as urban areas of Amethi despite losing the elections in 2014 and defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Amethi in 2019.