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| Stop Congress from its down the hill journey | | | The Congress is on a down the hill jour-
ney since May last when it lost power
in India to the BJP. In 2014 Lok Sabha poll the Congress won only44 seats thereby could not make to the leader of the opposion even. After the debacle in the Lok Sabha election the Congress was seen going down the precipice in other states where the Assembly election was held towards the fag end of 2014 or in first week of February. It lost the Assembly poll in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and in Haryana,What a miracle the BJP performed in Haryana where from almost a non-entity it rose to form the Government for the first time in the history of the party.The Congress Government was unseated af ter the party was trounced by the BJP and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.. After the drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, Congress president Sonia Gandhi did summon a meeting of the "enlarged" Congress Working Committee at which she and her son Rahul, who is the party's vice-president, "accepted" their responsibility for the electoral disaster and offered to resign. Apparently, according to a pre-scripted play, everybody screamed that there was absolutely no reason for mother and son to quit and therefore their resignations could not be accepted. Thereafter, there has been no Congress conclave of any size to analyse the reasons for the electoral debacle and embark on the necessary task of bringing the desolate party back to life. The failure of the Congress leadership to take steps for revamping the organization by promoting interaction with people and by its failure to project a team of senior leaders to get the party going led to its worst ever defeat and humiliation in the Delhi Assembly poll. The Congress had faced a rout in the Delhi Assembly poll in 2013 when it won only eight of the 70 seats.But its performance during the February 2015 Delhi Assembly election has been the worst ever performance of the Congress in electoral battles. What could be treated as a shocking experience was that the Congress candidates forfeited their security deposit in 60 constituencies. It had to be because the total vote share of the Congress in 70 Assembly segments in Delhi did not cross 1000 per cent.Yes,the BJP too was rejected by the voters as it could simply win only three seats but its vote share was over 32 per cent. If the debacle in the Lok Sabha election in the country and Assembly elections in Haryana,Maharashtra and Jharkhand did not shake the Congress out of its slumber the worst ever rout that it faced in Delhi Assembly election should force the top Congress leaders to carry out introspection so that they could find out what and where things went wrong and what measures needed to be taken to galvanise the Congress. Now that the Assembly elections in West Bengal and Bihar besides UP are not far away the Congress has to oil its organizational machinery so that it does well in the upcoming elections.
First of all the party high command has to initiate strict measures for ending discord and conflict between the dissidents and the loyalists in the Congress in various states. To begin with the high command has to initiate measures for ending the prolonged rot in the state unit of the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir.Now that Ghulam Nabi Azad,who is alleged to have been patronising dissidents since the time Ghulam Rasool Kar headed the PCC in mid 90's,has been elected to the Rajya Sabha the executive committee of the PCC needs to be enlarged with three provincial presidents working under the command of a senior leader who would be appointed as the PCC Chief. Azad should have no role in revamping the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir because it was during his time as Union Minister playing a vital role in shaping and reshaping Congress in Jammu and Kashmir that the Congress failed to win even a single Lok Sabha seat out of six in Jammu and Kashmir. And during the just concluded Assembly election it won only12 seats against 17 in 2008 and 20 in 2002 election which confirms that the party is on a down the hill journey. As far as the Congress plight on the national level is concerned let the party pick up a group of people,not belonging to Gandhi dynasty,who are given the job of revamping the party throughout the country. |
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