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April 23, 2024 9:30 AM

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To keep Congress morally up Rahul Gandhi should change the old guards with fresh, young and outstanding youth leaders

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The spate of resignations in the Congress party impressing upon the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to take back his obstinate decision to resign as the party boss since the last one month after the party’s debacle at the hustings has made the mockery like situation in the political scenerio of the country.
The Nehru Gandhi scion is determined to resign but the party’s highest decision making body and all its senior leaders pass a unanimous decision requesting him to continue as the party president saying that it’s not his individual moral responsibility but the entire party is to be blamed for the defeat.
The CWC resolution has rather appreciated his sincere and dedicated efforts to revive the party which according to the senior leaders was at its lowest since 2014.
The Congress party’s drubbing at the pan India level has infact demoralised the party’s national head Rahul Gandhi as well as the rank and file to the greatest extent warranting the BJP to criticize the party for sticking to dynasty but not giving chance to a new incumbent as new party chief out of the Gandhi family.
But the coterie surrounding Rahul Gandhi and ten Janpath since long wants Rahul to continue despite the Congress’s drubbing at the hustings in 2014, 2017 and now in 2019 incessantly. The party has been defeated in at least 17 states.as well this time.
The point is if Rahul Gandhi is adamant to resign then why is it that he is not formulating a new policy for giving the reigns to someone else in order to revitalise the party at the grassroots ?
Why is it that there is no overhaul of the party organisation at the grassroots as well as at the national level ?
What and who is stopping him to regenerate the party by kicking out the useless and primitive old guards who do politics in airconditioned rooms and bring forth the young leaders from states on the national scene to utilise their intellect, energetic acumen and abilities.
If Dr.Manmohan Singh can run the UPA 1 and 2 governments successfully for a decade on his own with  the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul holding the remote control in their hands, how come that after Rahul’s exit no other alternative president with outstanding intellect, agility and experience can run the party at the pan India level with Rahul, Sonia and Priyanka becoming the force from the back as inspiring icons of Congress party.
The time has come now that the party president Rahul Gandhi who is determined to resign either gives up his obstinate attitude to quit  or resigns to pave way for a new person as party president preferably a dalit and asks for resignation of all state party chiefs and central office bearers and refurbish the organisation right from the blocks, districts, state to the national level kicking out the leaders with criminal backgrounds and those not showing any activity.
Instead he should give deserving and educated youths more chances than the outmoded old Congressmen who are liability rathar than asset for the party.
There is obviously no doubt that old and outmoded leaders and state  party presidents of at least the seventeen states be held accountable for the party’s defeat at the hustings and changed immediately with new and powerful organisation in the new set up bringing energetc youths in their place .
Special care should be taken to accomodate capable youths with experience, intellect and energy from all communities, sects, castes and religion with special emphasis on represntatives of minorities and dalits.
If indeed Rahul Gandhi earnestly wants his resignation to trigger a clean up of the Congress organisation he should come out in the open to make it loud and clear and initiate a process of newer appointments of capable persons.
He should openly and daringly put accountability of defeats on old guards in the states and at the centre and should strongly and decisively come out with a new alternative framework to rebuild the 135 year old party.
The rank and file of the Congress party has never seen such a critical phase as now, under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi .
There is a time now to either quit and pave way for the new entrant or to get rid of the useless coterie of old guards and refurbish the organisation with young ones’ who are qualied, educated, capable, daring and compenssionate. In politics there is always a change and if the Congress party resurrects itself strongly and cohesively there is not an inkling of doubt that next time it will be their turn to rule ? What’s your take friends?

Sunil Negi hails from Uttarakhand and is a veteran journalist and author. He is a prolific writer and has carved a name for himself in the media world. He received the 'Golden Achiever Award' in the '90th AIAC Excellence Awards 2019' for his book ''Havoc in Heaven'' based on the tragedy that struck Uttarakhand in which thousands of people lost their lives. He is also the President of Uttarakhand Journalists Forum and majorly writes on Politics, Current Affairs, and Social Issues.

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