Congress Chaos 101: Sandeep Dikshit Erupts, Shashi Tharoor Says Ditto

New Delhi:

Extra Congress leaders have long past public with their research, after the Delhi election rout, of the birthday celebration’s state of deterioration and the advice that it’s time to cope with the management query.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor lately tweeted a newspaper document quoting former MP Sandeep Dikshit on senior leaders “failing” to discover a new president and wrote that what he mentioned overtly was once being mentioned sotto voce by means of “dozens of birthday celebration leaders” around the nation.

“What Sandeep Dikshit mentioned overtly is what dozens of birthday celebration leaders from around the nation are announcing privately, together with many with accountable positions within the birthday celebration. I renew my attraction to the CWC (Congress Running Committee) to carry management elections to energize staff and encourage electorate,” Shashi Tharoor wrote.

The Congress took it badly. “If Sandeep is placing it on twitter, if he places even a fragment in his paintings, he’s going to become Delhi. As a substitute of giving gyaan (lecture), be aware of doing excellent paintings,” mentioned birthday celebration spokesperson Randeep Surjewala.

The Congress, which dominated Delhi for 3 instantly phrases until 2013 with Sheila Dikshit as Leader Minister, could not win a unmarried seat within the 70-member meeting within the election previous this month. The level of the birthday celebration’s wreck within the capital was once underlined by means of the beautiful incontrovertible fact that its applicants misplaced their deposits – that means they could not even win a 6th of the votes – in 63 seats.

Whilst a bit of Congress leaders reacted by means of overtly congratulating Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) for defeating the BJP, any other team known as out its personal leaders for praising a rival birthday celebration that grew at the price of the Congress and displaced it. One birthday celebration chief, PC Chacko, even pointed arms at Sheila Dikshit, who died remaining 12 months.

Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit, a former Congress MP from Delhi, informed the Indian Express in an interview that the birthday celebration’s greatest problem was once the management query. He mentioned there have been no less than six-eight Congress leaders in a position to main the birthday celebration, however “once in a while you need state of no activity as a result of you do not need a undeniable motion to occur”.

Mr Dikshit named Amarinder Singh, Ashok Gehlot, Kamal Nath, AK Antony, P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, Ahmed Patel and mentioned it was once time for them to “intellectually give a contribution” and get into management variety.

“The present place is that madam (Sonia) Gandhi is an meantime president, Mr (Rahul) Gandhi does not need to be president. So allow us to recognize his place and elevate on,” the Congress chief informed the newspaper. “It is really easy to place your finger on anybody chief. However what are the remainder of the 30, 40, 50 (leaders) doing?… They write articles, they write books, they mutter and murmur in meetings and in conferences…do not you’ve gotten the heart to return in combination and provides one thing,” Mr Dikshit mentioned, no longer retaining again.

Remaining week, Jairam Ramesh in comparison the Delhi end result to “coronavirus” for the Congress and mentioned some within the birthday celebration nonetheless behaved like ministers even after six years out of energy. Others like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Manish Tewari advised the birthday celebration has to reinvent itself.