The defection by the Congress MLAs in Goa couldn’t have come at a worse time for Rahul Gandhi and the celebration.
On February 4, only a few days earlier than the Goa polls, within the presence of Rahul Gandhi, Congress leaders had taken an oath that after the election, they’d not defect to some other celebration. The explanation: In 2017, the Congress had suffered a blow when 15 of their elected legislators give up the celebration.
This breaking of oath has damaged the momentum the Bharat Jodo Yatra had gathered within the week it travelled from Kanyakumari to Kerala and forward. Only a few days in the past, Ghulam Nabi Azad had informed News18.com that Bharat Jodo Yatra must be changed with Congress Jodo Yatra because the celebration was splitting, many have been leaving and the cadre was demoralised.
The event reveals how the celebration must work on its organisation now greater than ever.
Goa has been an instance of the disconnect between the central and state management.
In 2017, when the Congress was poised to kind the federal government, however was falling quick of some MLAs, Digvijaya Singh, who was then in-charge of the state, stored ready for a affirmation name from Rahul Gandhi to go forward and get help of some impartial MLAs. That decision by no means materialised and the end result was the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) fashioned the federal government. Every time somebody has left the celebration, from Himanta Biswa Sarma to Jitin Prasada, all of them have made the purpose that no person listens to them.
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The yatra is to attach the nation and make it one, in accordance with the Congress, however the problem stays to make sure the celebration stays one.
The largest downside for the Congress is it has been fully worn out within the states it as soon as dominated and is now discovering it troublesome to bounce again. The evident examples are Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and the record is simply getting longer as different stakeholders and gamers such because the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) and to a small extent the Trinamool Congress (TMC) are available in.
The expansion of the AAP can solely happen at the price of Congress, which is precisely what is going on. Like in Gujarat, Kejriwal damage the Congress when he stated that the celebration was completed. In Punjab, the poor organisation and infighting within the Congress price the celebration the polls.
Whereas Rahul Gandhi himself has been indicating that he’s not eager to be the president and will keep away from the method, not many are keen to purchase the argument that if a non-Gandhi is made the president, the individual won’t be managed by the Gandhis.
So on this scenario, the place the celebration has didn’t hold its flock collectively and has additionally confronted intelligence failure in not anticipating the cut up, the onus is on the Gandhis.
With inputs from News18