Leaders Need 5-Megastar Convenience: Ghulam Nabi Azad On Why Congress Loses Polls
Ghulam Nabi Azad mentioned if Congress leaders get a party price ticket, “they first guide a 5-star resort”.
New Delhi:
Congress’s Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the crucial key dissenters within the party, nowadays introduced some other clarification of the party’s fresh hunch in terms of elections. Talking in the midst of the newest controversy to hit the party – sharp complaint via party colleague Kapil Sibal after the Bihar election – Mr Azad mentioned leaders who get a price ticket now flip their backs at the warmth and dirt of marketing campaign, who prefer as a substitute to stay ensconced in five-star convenience.
“The issue with our leaders is if they get a party price ticket, they first guide a five-star resort. Even there they would like a deluxe position. Then they’ll no longer transfer with out an air-conditioned automobile. They’ll no longer cross to puts the place there may be an untarred street,” he informed information company ANI.
“Elections aren’t fought from five-star inns… We will be able to’t win till we modify this tradition,” he added.
From parachuting outdoor in-charges to deficient management from the highest, a lot has been cited as the cause of the party’s dismal efficiency.
“Many blame the leaders. The Congress president or Rahul Gandhi,” Mr Azad mentioned, pointing as a substitute to native leaders of the party who’re appointed to best posts.
“They’ve misplaced the relationship with other people. The block leaders or district leaders. The instant somebody will get a rank, they print their letter pads and visiting playing cards and suppose the task is completed. However this is the place the paintings starts,” he added.
Indicating that the highest management used to be no longer going incorrect both, he mentioned below Sonia Gandhi, the Congress received 5 states in 4 to 5 years, “when I used to be 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 party management didn’t intrude within the party functioning,” he mentioned.
“In Andhra Pradesh, we had 5 parliamentary seats which higher to 37 in 2004. The UPA-I executive used to be shaped basically on account of Congress’s efficiency in Andhra Pradesh. Within the meeting elections, our seats higher to round 180. In a single-and-a-half years, I visited Delhi best three times. I visited Hyderabad town best two times as many of the programmes had been carried out within the rural spaces. I had remained union minister however nonetheless, I labored within the rural spaces. Elections aren’t received thru a five-star tradition,” he added.
He mentioned that so long as office-bearers aren’t elected however appointed, they wouldn’t connect to the grassroots. There must be people who find themselves elected, Mr Azad added.
Within the interview with The Indian information, Mr Sibal had pointed to the party’s reverses in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and mentioned he were compelled to head public together with his perspectives as “there was no discussion and there appears to be no effort for a discussion via the management”.
3 key leaders within the Congress were vocal with their complaint about his remarks. Amongst them Salman Khurshid, a Gandhi circle of relatives loyalist, had mentioned, “I’ve mentioned very obviously that the Gandhis are leaders of the Congress. No one can deny this. I do not be disturbed about whether or not or no longer we have now a president”.
