Battling defection and sharp criticism from within and outside, Kharge’s remarks came amid indications that Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot was unwilling to take responsibility, posing the party to the question of ‘If-Not-Rahul-Then-Who’ is battling.
While his remarks seem to validate criticism by dissidents and political opponents, the enthusiasm around internal elections is a sham and the party will eventually have only one in the Gandhi family if they fail to find an over-loyal proxy. Huh, Kharge seemed careless.
He, like other Congress managers, insisted that there is no leader in the Congress to match Rahul’s pan-India appeal, nor does he have the ability to attack the saffron party and the Narendra Modi-led BJP government. .
“Besides this, there is no one else within the party who is acceptable to all. We are standing behind Rahul ji. So, we will ask them, we will request them and we will force them,” Kharge said, adding that party leaders had similarly urged the Congress president Sonia Gandhi To take over the reins of Congress in 1996, join the party and work for it, and eventually he accepted the leaders’ requests.
While Sunday’s CWC will not come close to resolving the leadership debate, which has left the party confused since Rahul Gandhi stepped down in 2019. Lok Sabha Defeat, meeting expected to see high drama, as rebel leader Anand SharmaHe is likely to join the deliberations of coming back to the national capital after his brief visit to the home state of Himachal Pradesh.
Sharma, who spent an hour with his renegade former colleague Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday evening, kept quiet about what happened between the two. However, he told TOI that the issues raised by the G-23 in its original letter to the Congress were “still alive” and had they been accepted by the party in the right spirit, things would not have been like this. Would have been
Congress managers, on their part, said they expected Sunday’s stir to be nothing more than consolidating the election schedule on the official agenda. The virtual meeting, which will also be attended by party chiefs Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, is expected to complete the election process by mid-October instead of September 20, when the party had originally said it would set up a new Congress president. .