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| Congress accepts defeat even before declaration of results | | Facing extinction | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 17: Gone ate the days when the Congress, which was set up by three Britons at Bombay in 1885, would play all shots and reign supreme. Things have changed and changed drastically. Situation has climaxed to the point that the AICC leadership comprising Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra are doing all that they could to save the Congress party. That the Congress had become a spent force became clear in 2014 itself, when its tally came down from 207 in 2009 to a paltry 44 and when it could not even get the status of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Things have not improved since then. In fact, things seem to have further worsened. How else could one describe what senior Congress man and Leader of the Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said about the Congress and its stand on the office of Prime Minister, notwithstanding his Friday U-turn that the Congress would stake its claim to the post of Prime Minister? He accepted the defeat of the Congress even before declaration of results on May 23.
"My party high command has already made it clear that the Congress is not averse to making a leader from any regional party the Prime Minister," Azad told reporters at the Congress office in Shimla on Thursday.
His statement came barely 24 hours after he had said that the Congress "will not make an issue" if the Prime Minister's post is not offered to the party.
"We are not going to make it an issue that we (Congress) will not let any other (leader) to become the Prime Minister if it is not offered to us (Congress)," Azad had said a day before in Patna.
What Azad said at Patna and Shimla only suggested that the Congress was in a serious trouble and there were hardly two to three marginal outfits in the country which could do business with it. These include Lalu Prasad's RJD, Sharad Pawar's NCP, Kerala Muslim League and the National Conference. As for other regional parties, they have all said goodbye to the Congress. Even the JDS, which is ruling Karnataka in alliance with the Congress, has been showing thumb to the Congress from time to time. The Congress itself is responsible for its decline. |
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