Crack seems to have appeared in coordination between India and Congress says Manish Tewari
27 August, 2022 | Simran Turak
Manish Tewari, a senior Congress leader, responded to Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation by saying that a crack seems to have appeared in the coordination between India and the Congress that had ...
Manish Tewari, a senior Congress leader, responded to Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation by saying that a crack seems to have appeared in the coordination between India and the Congress that had existed since 1885.
“Two years back, 23 of us wrote to Sonia Gandhi that the party’s situation is worrying and should be taken seriously. Congress lost all Assembly polls after that letter. If Congress and India thought alike, it seems either of them has started thinking differently,” Tewari said.
“A crack seems to have appeared in the coordination between India and Congress that had existed since 1885. A self-introspection was needed. I feel that had the consensus of the meeting at Sonia Gandhi’s residence on December 20, 2020 been executed, this situation wouldn’t have arrived,” he added.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, a veteran leader and former Union minister, resigned from the Congress on Friday.
The revelation came more than a week after Azad declined to lead the party’s campaign committee and serve on the Jammu and Kashmir unit’s political affairs panel.
Azad wrote in his resignation letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday that the party has lost the will and ability to fight for what is right for the country. This, he claimed, was due to the party acting on the orders of a small group of All India Congress Committee leaders.
“In fact, before starting a Bharat Jodo Yatra [join India exercise], the leadership should have taken a Congress jodo exercise across the country,” he wrote.
The former Rajya Sabha MP referred to the two United Progressive Alliance governments as successful because Gandhi listened to senior leaders’ advice and delegated power to them when she was president.
Azad, on the other hand, claimed that after Congress MP Rahul Gandhi entered politics and became vice president in 2013, he destroyed this “entire consultative mechanism.”
“All senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and a new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the party,” he said.