Ghulam Nabi Azad stated if Congress leaders get a celebration ticket, “they first e-book a 5-star lodge”.
New Delhi:
Congress’s Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of many key dissenters within the occasion, in the present day supplied one other clarification of the occasion’s latest hunch relating to elections. Talking in the course of the most recent controversy to hit the occasion – sharp criticism by occasion colleague Kapil Sibal after the Bihar election – Mr Azad stated leaders who get a ticket now flip their backs on the warmth and dirt of marketing campaign, preferring as a substitute to stay ensconced in five-star consolation.
“The issue with our leaders is that in the event that they get a celebration ticket, they first e-book a five-star lodge. Even there they need a deluxe place. Then they won’t transfer with out an air-conditioned automobile. They won’t go to locations the place there’s an untarred highway,” he instructed information company ANI.
“Elections aren’t fought from five-star inns… We will not win till we alter this tradition,” he added.
From parachuting exterior in-charges to poor management from the highest, many claims have been made in regards to the motive for the occasion’s dismal efficiency.
“Many blame the leaders. The Congress president or Rahul Gandhi,” Mr Azad stated, pointing as a substitute to native leaders of the occasion who’re appointed to high posts.
“They’ve misplaced the reference to folks. The block leaders or district leaders. The second somebody will get a rank, they print their letter pads and visiting playing cards and assume the job is finished. However that’s the place the work begins,” he added.
Indicating that the highest management was not going flawed both, he stated underneath Sonia Gandhi, the Congress received 5 states in 4 to 5 years, “after I was in-charge of election affairs”.
“We received in Karnataka, Kerala and we shaped an alliance in Tamil Nadu. In Andhra Pradesh, we received in 2004. The occasion management didn’t intrude within the occasion functioning,” he stated.
“In Andhra Pradesh, we had 5 parliamentary seats which elevated to 37 in 2004. The UPA-I authorities was shaped primarily due to Congress’s efficiency in Andhra Pradesh. Within the meeting elections, our seats elevated to round 180. In a single-and-a-half years, I visited Delhi solely thrice. I visited Hyderabad metropolis solely twice as many of the programmes had been carried out within the rural areas. I had remained union minister however nonetheless, I labored within the rural areas. Elections aren’t received via a five-star tradition,” he added.
He stated that so long as office-bearers aren’t elected however appointed, they might not join with the grassroots. There must be people who find themselves elected, Mr Azad added.
Within the interview with The Indian Specific, Mr Sibal had pointed to the occasion’s reverses in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and stated he had been compelled to go public along with his views as “there was no dialogue and there appears to be no effort for a dialogue by the management”.
Three key leaders within the Congress had been vocal with their criticism about his remarks. Amongst them Salman Khurshid, a Gandhi household loyalist, had stated, “I’ve stated very clearly that the Gandhis are leaders of the Congress. No person can deny this. I do not fear about whether or not or not we have now a president”.
