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NEW DELHI: The disaster surrounding the Congress isn’t just about useless management or organisational atrophy however one thing “extra profound”, famous instructional and political scientist Zoya Hasan mentioned on Friday, including that paradigmatic adjustments within the polity, financial system, and society are contributing elements.
At a dialogue on her new guide ‘Ideology and Organisation in Indian Politics: Polarisation and Rising Disaster of the Congress Birthday celebration’, Hasan mentioned ideological ambiguity on key problems is a serious problem.
Whilst calling the continued ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ a great way to rebuild political capital and galvanise electorate for the 2024 basic elections, she mentioned, “it would in the end revive Congress through stirring a chase away towards communal politics and the slide into authoritarianism.”
Hasan on the other hand added that whilst the Yatra supplies a critique of the regime and the governance document, it does now not supply a imaginative and prescient for the rustic which calls for extra substance.
“The decline of Congress must be learn with the impressive expansion of its ideological different –the BJP. The good fortune of the present regime derives from its skill to redirect Indian public discourse with a lot of electorate viewing themselves in the course of the prism in their overreaching non secular identification,” mentioned Hasan.
She mentioned the discourse moved from “subject material deprivation” to that of “victimhood of the bulk group” which thinks it’s been disadvantaged of its rightful position in a Hindu nation.
Hasan famous that the organisational disaster within the Congress has been annoyed through centralisation within the arms of best leaders, who lack floor point toughen.
“With out crafting a transparent Opposition philosophy, Congress can’t mobilise floor toughen to counter identification politics,” she mentioned.
Speaking in regards to the “management disaster” within the birthday party which didn’t have a full-time president for nearly 3 years after Rahul Gandhi’s resignation, she mentioned even because the election of a “non-Gandhi” (Mallilkarjun Kharge) to the publish of Congress president is a vital alternate, it can’t unravel the deep rooted issues of the birthday party.
Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyar on the other hand mentioned that the publish of president within the birthday party has now not at all times been the highest management, and identified that Mahatma Gandhi was once now not a member of Congress for a very long time, however nonetheless was once the principle face of the birthday party.
“I doubt if Mallikarjun Kharge was once main Bharat Jodo Yatra, there can be as many of us following,” mentioned Aiyar.
“Management isn’t associated with the presidency of the birthday party. Congress did elect its president and I am afraid not anything modified,” he mentioned.
Aiyar additionally admitted that the Congress has a number of leaders who don’t have ground-level toughen.
“Congress is a collection of barons with a king on the best,” he mentioned.
“There are individuals who have captured positions, they have captured it through warding off elections, maximum of them are in Rajya Sabha. They’re those who stopped Rajiv Gandhi, after which Sonia Gandhi from enterprise adjustments, and they’re additionally preventing Rahul Gandhi from making adjustments,” he mentioned.
The veteran Congress chief opined that forging alliances is the future of the birthday party for its revival.
“If we are saying, let all events able to oppose BJP come in combination, with out a promises of who would be the High Minister, we depart it to the election end result, there’s a risk that the two-thirds that didn’t vote for BJP will toughen,” he mentioned.
Former high minister Manmohan Singh’s former consultant Harish Khare in the meantime mentioned the Congress didn’t keep in mind that dangerous politics ends up in dangerous governance, which ends up in “communalisation.”
He credited Singh for the victory of Congress-led alliance in 2009, and mentioned, “the largest lack of confidence was once at 10, Janpath.”
“Inside two months of Sharm El Sheikh, all of the Congress became its again by itself PM. Congress leaders have been sabotaging the PM’s time table. Pranab Mukherjee – the quantity two guy and AK Antony, who was once the quantity 3, changed into the largest saboteur,” he mentioned.
“The disaster is completely of circle of relatives overload. Except this is looked after out we will be able to see the upward push of the best wing unchallenged,” he added.
NEW DELHI: The disaster surrounding the Congress isn’t just about useless management or organisational atrophy however one thing “extra profound”, famous instructional and political scientist Zoya Hasan mentioned on Friday, including that paradigmatic adjustments within the polity, financial system, and society are contributing elements.
At a dialogue on her new guide ‘Ideology and Organisation in Indian Politics: Polarisation and Rising Disaster of the Congress Birthday celebration’, Hasan mentioned ideological ambiguity on key problems is a serious problem.
Whilst calling the continued ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ a great way to rebuild political capital and galvanise electorate for the 2024 basic elections, she mentioned, “it would in the end revive Congress through stirring a chase away towards communal politics and the slide into authoritarianism.”
Hasan on the other hand added that whilst the Yatra supplies a critique of the regime and the governance document, it does now not supply a imaginative and prescient for the rustic which calls for extra substance.
“The decline of Congress must be learn with the impressive expansion of its ideological different –the BJP. The good fortune of the present regime derives from its skill to redirect Indian public discourse with a lot of electorate viewing themselves in the course of the prism in their overreaching non secular identification,” mentioned Hasan.
She mentioned the discourse moved from “subject material deprivation” to that of “victimhood of the bulk group” which thinks it’s been disadvantaged of its rightful position in a Hindu nation.
Hasan famous that the organisational disaster within the Congress has been annoyed through centralisation within the arms of best leaders, who lack floor point toughen.
“With out crafting a transparent Opposition philosophy, Congress can’t mobilise floor toughen to counter identification politics,” she mentioned.
Speaking in regards to the “management disaster” within the birthday party which didn’t have a full-time president for nearly 3 years after Rahul Gandhi’s resignation, she mentioned even because the election of a “non-Gandhi” (Mallilkarjun Kharge) to the publish of Congress president is a vital alternate, it can’t unravel the deep rooted issues of the birthday party.
Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyar on the other hand mentioned that the publish of president within the birthday party has now not at all times been the highest management, and identified that Mahatma Gandhi was once now not a member of Congress for a very long time, however nonetheless was once the principle face of the birthday party.
“I doubt if Mallikarjun Kharge was once main Bharat Jodo Yatra, there can be as many of us following,” mentioned Aiyar.
“Management isn’t associated with the presidency of the birthday party. Congress did elect its president and I am afraid not anything modified,” he mentioned.
Aiyar additionally admitted that the Congress has a number of leaders who don’t have ground-level toughen.
“Congress is a collection of barons with a king on the best,” he mentioned.
“There are individuals who have captured positions, they have captured it through warding off elections, maximum of them are in Rajya Sabha. They’re those who stopped Rajiv Gandhi, after which Sonia Gandhi from enterprise adjustments, and they’re additionally preventing Rahul Gandhi from making adjustments,” he mentioned.
The veteran Congress chief opined that forging alliances is the future of the birthday party for its revival.
“If we are saying, let all events able to oppose BJP come in combination, with out a promises of who would be the High Minister, we depart it to the election end result, there’s a risk that the two-thirds that didn’t vote for BJP will toughen,” he mentioned.
Former high minister Manmohan Singh’s former consultant Harish Khare in the meantime mentioned the Congress didn’t keep in mind that dangerous politics ends up in dangerous governance, which ends up in “communalisation.”
He credited Singh for the victory of Congress-led alliance in 2009, and mentioned, “the largest lack of confidence was once at 10, Janpath.”
“Inside two months of Sharm El Sheikh, all of the Congress became its again by itself PM. Congress leaders have been sabotaging the PM’s time table. Pranab Mukherjee – the quantity two guy and AK Antony, who was once the quantity 3, changed into the largest saboteur,” he mentioned.
“The disaster is completely of circle of relatives overload. Except this is looked after out we will be able to see the upward push of the best wing unchallenged,” he added.
