By means of PTI
KOLKATA: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Sunday asserted that non-BJP events that dream of opposition team spirit with out the grand previous birthday party because the fulcrum is imaginable live in a “idiot’s paradise”.
With out naming any outfit, he mentioned many regional events have back-stabbed the grand previous birthday party up to now to serve their very own self-interests, and that such events will have to prevent the use of Congress as a punching bag.
“There can’t be any opposition team spirit with out the Congress as its fulcrum. This is elementary. If any non-BJP outfit thinks any alliance sans the Congress may give a strong executive for 5 years, it’s residing in a idiot’s paradise. There can by no means be any opposition team spirit minus the Congress,” Ramesh affirmed in an interview with PTI in Kolkata, the place he had come to wait a birthday party programme.
Even supposing he dubbed the Aam Aadmi Birthday party (AAP) because the “B-team” of the BJP, Ramesh stopped in need of analysing the position of the Trinamool Congress, which too, just like the Arvind Kejriwal-led birthday party, is adverse to the Congress, through pronouncing, “It (TMC) has Congress in its identify.”
“We’ve got mentioned this earlier than. There’s considerable proof to turn out that AAP is the B-team of the BJP. If you happen to take a look at its historical past or the background of its leaders, you’re going to realize it. In regards to the TMC, I’m but to make my evaluation, however I feel they, too, have Congress of their identify,” he mentioned.
With out naming someone, Ramesh mentioned those that communicate of opposition team spirit with out the Congress handiest wish to weaken the opposition entrance and the grand previous birthday party.
“In an alliance, you give one thing and obtain one thing in go back. It’s an figuring out. Thus far, the Congress has been providing, and everybody has benefited from it. And after you have advantages, they have got been making an attempt to make use of the Congress as a punching bag to weaken it. This has to prevent now,” he mentioned.
Terming the Congress the “giant elephant of Indian politics”, Ramesh mentioned nobody will have to make the error of “writing it off”.
Talking at the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra, he mentioned a bolstered Congress and a harder and positive opposition will be the finish manufactured from the march.
“We’ve got began the Yatra over nationwide problems. The rustic goes via a scenario the place our politics, financial system, and establishments are falling aside because of the BJP and its divisive politics. Every other purpose of the Yatra is to galvanise the rank and record of the Congress forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls,” the previous union setting minister mentioned.
Ramesh mentioned the Yatra used to be no longer geared toward state elections within the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. When advised that the Congress is talking of “Bharat Jodo” when the birthday party itself is in disarray, Ramesh mentioned the outfit is making an attempt to mend its inside problems.
“We need to set our area so as, and we’re doing it. We need to repair our problems and are within the means of doing it. The Congress is a 137-year-old birthday party; occasionally, there are some a very powerful moments in historical past when you wish to have out-of-the-box considering to achieve out to the loads. Bharat Jodo Yatra is one such considering and will likely be a recreation changer,” he mentioned.
A just about 3,650-km-long padayatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir is being undertaken through senior chief Rahul Gandhi since September 7. The five-and-a-half month-long march goals to galvanise Congress cadres and enhance the organisation, inhaling new power.
Taking a swipe at Congress ‘G-23’ leaders, senior politicians of the birthday party who had sought an organisational overhaul and elections in any respect ranges in a letter to the Congress president in August 2020, Ramesh mentioned that once the age of 65, senior politicos will have to act as “mentors and groom next-generation leaders”.
“Senior Congress leaders will have to act as mentors. I imagine I’m now 68 and wouldn’t have the similar power I used to have ten or 5 years again. After the age of 65, one will have to establish people who find themselves of their 30s and 40s and groom them for changing into next-generation leaders,” he mentioned.
Talking at the ongoing desertion of senior leaders from the birthday party, Ramesh mentioned those that have were given the entirety from the Congress are leaving the birthday party.
“There are two kinds of people who find themselves leaving the Congress. The primary kind contains those that have benefited immensely from the birthday party. Ghulam Nabi Azad is an instance. He were given the entirety from the birthday party and has now left it. The second one kind are the ones leaving the Congress to flee investigative companies which might be after them for his or her earlier sins. Devoted Congressmen won’t ever barren region the birthday party,” he mentioned.
When requested whether or not the speculation of the Bharat Jodo Yatra to mobilise lots has been taken from the Ram Rath Yatra of the BJP within the 90s, Ramesh spoke back within the unfavorable.
“Previous, on a number of events, the Congress and Rahul Gandhi have taken out yatras, however perhaps no longer of this scale. And relating to BJP’s yatra, it used to be based on V P Singh’s Mandal Fee. The Bharat Jodo Yatra is towards the divisive politics and insurance policies of the BJP,” he added.
KOLKATA: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Sunday asserted that non-BJP events that dream of opposition team spirit with out the grand previous birthday party because the fulcrum is imaginable live in a “idiot’s paradise”.
With out naming any outfit, he mentioned many regional events have back-stabbed the grand previous birthday party up to now to serve their very own self-interests, and that such events will have to prevent the use of Congress as a punching bag.
“There can’t be any opposition team spirit with out the Congress as its fulcrum. This is elementary. If any non-BJP outfit thinks any alliance sans the Congress may give a strong executive for 5 years, it’s residing in a idiot’s paradise. There can by no means be any opposition team spirit minus the Congress,” Ramesh affirmed in an interview with PTI in Kolkata, the place he had come to wait a birthday party programme.
Even supposing he dubbed the Aam Aadmi Birthday party (AAP) because the “B-team” of the BJP, Ramesh stopped in need of analysing the position of the Trinamool Congress, which too, just like the Arvind Kejriwal-led birthday party, is adverse to the Congress, through pronouncing, “It (TMC) has Congress in its identify.”
“We’ve got mentioned this earlier than. There’s considerable proof to turn out that AAP is the B-team of the BJP. If you happen to take a look at its historical past or the background of its leaders, you’re going to realize it. In regards to the TMC, I’m but to make my evaluation, however I feel they, too, have Congress of their identify,” he mentioned.
With out naming someone, Ramesh mentioned those that communicate of opposition team spirit with out the Congress handiest wish to weaken the opposition entrance and the grand previous birthday party.
“In an alliance, you give one thing and obtain one thing in go back. It’s an figuring out. Thus far, the Congress has been providing, and everybody has benefited from it. And after you have advantages, they have got been making an attempt to make use of the Congress as a punching bag to weaken it. This has to prevent now,” he mentioned.
Terming the Congress the “giant elephant of Indian politics”, Ramesh mentioned nobody will have to make the error of “writing it off”.
Talking at the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra, he mentioned a bolstered Congress and a harder and positive opposition will be the finish manufactured from the march.
“We’ve got began the Yatra over nationwide problems. The rustic goes via a scenario the place our politics, financial system, and establishments are falling aside because of the BJP and its divisive politics. Every other purpose of the Yatra is to galvanise the rank and record of the Congress forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls,” the previous union setting minister mentioned.
Ramesh mentioned the Yatra used to be no longer geared toward state elections within the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. When advised that the Congress is talking of “Bharat Jodo” when the birthday party itself is in disarray, Ramesh mentioned the outfit is making an attempt to mend its inside problems.
“We need to set our area so as, and we’re doing it. We need to repair our problems and are within the means of doing it. The Congress is a 137-year-old birthday party; occasionally, there are some a very powerful moments in historical past when you wish to have out-of-the-box considering to achieve out to the loads. Bharat Jodo Yatra is one such considering and will likely be a recreation changer,” he mentioned.
A just about 3,650-km-long padayatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir is being undertaken through senior chief Rahul Gandhi since September 7. The five-and-a-half month-long march goals to galvanise Congress cadres and enhance the organisation, inhaling new power.
Taking a swipe at Congress ‘G-23’ leaders, senior politicians of the birthday party who had sought an organisational overhaul and elections in any respect ranges in a letter to the Congress president in August 2020, Ramesh mentioned that once the age of 65, senior politicos will have to act as “mentors and groom next-generation leaders”.
“Senior Congress leaders will have to act as mentors. I imagine I’m now 68 and wouldn’t have the similar power I used to have ten or 5 years again. After the age of 65, one will have to establish people who find themselves of their 30s and 40s and groom them for changing into next-generation leaders,” he mentioned.
Talking at the ongoing desertion of senior leaders from the birthday party, Ramesh mentioned those that have were given the entirety from the Congress are leaving the birthday party.
“There are two kinds of people who find themselves leaving the Congress. The primary kind contains those that have benefited immensely from the birthday party. Ghulam Nabi Azad is an instance. He were given the entirety from the birthday party and has now left it. The second one kind are the ones leaving the Congress to flee investigative companies which might be after them for his or her earlier sins. Devoted Congressmen won’t ever barren region the birthday party,” he mentioned.
When requested whether or not the speculation of the Bharat Jodo Yatra to mobilise lots has been taken from the Ram Rath Yatra of the BJP within the 90s, Ramesh spoke back within the unfavorable.
“Previous, on a number of events, the Congress and Rahul Gandhi have taken out yatras, however perhaps no longer of this scale. And relating to BJP’s yatra, it used to be based on V P Singh’s Mandal Fee. The Bharat Jodo Yatra is towards the divisive politics and insurance policies of the BJP,” he added.