Bengaluru: Jitin Prasada’s exit from the Congress has raised questions but once more on the get together’s energy to retain younger leaders. Veteran chief Veerappa Moily, However, has a unique tackle it. While calling for a ‘major surgery’ within the get together underneath Sonia Gandhi’s management, Moily tells CNN-News18 that “casteist” leaders like Jitin ought to have been sacked way back. Excerpts from the interview:
Why are so many younger leaders exiting the Congress?
Not so many … now the query is of Jitin Prasada solely. You ought to know his conduct. He was Union Minister of State. Later he was defeated. But the purpose is, I do know him effectively, a few of these children, their casteist angle and anti-secular should not in step with the ideology of the get together. Our leaders ought to have recognised this and even now such folks shouldn’t be given place of energy. He was made the Congress Working Committee member. Then he was made in-charge of West Bengal. In Bengal, he ran away he ran away in between (in the midst of marketing campaign). Such individuals who run away from accountability ought to have instantly been dismissed from the get together.
Would you blame Prasada for the get together’s efficiency?
Well, he was there. Of course, the bigger image could also be totally different however turning out zero (in election outcomes) is disastrous. He thinks he is an upcoming chief and getting this type of outcomes. It is flawed to pick out such leaders. That’s why get together must do a significant surgical procedure from high to backside. Our chief, there is no downside with. We mustn’t deliberate on this AICC president difficulty. Madam (Sonia Gandhi) is robust and provoking, and she or he is able to taking everybody collectively. She has proved earlier and she’s going to show once more. Health could also be a problem however her sense of sacrifice will certainly make her to maneuver ahead. But Jitin was posted there. Running away from the accountability on the final minute is most inappropriate.
So Congress ought to solely take within the secular leaders?
Very a lot so. That will add high quality to the organisation and all folks shall be impressed. There is an opportunistic angle of some leaders. Even children are opportunistic. They run away. This what we witnessed when many left the TMC, together with ministers, and we noticed an exodus becoming a member of BJP on the final minute (across the current West Bengal elections). The BJP is enjoying divisive politics. They need to destroy democracy and silence the Opposition. When that is so, our get together ought to be based mostly on robust, dedicated, mass-based leaders.
So when are you going to start out it? As of now you don’t actually have a full-time president and solely an interim president.
That’s why I would like the get together to not take into consideration tomorrow however give it some thought in the present day. Tomorrow is probably not accessible to us. The meeting elections in seven states are approaching. Then in 2024, there are the Lok Sabha polls once more. Right now we now have to arrange ourselves. The Congress has the aptitude. It is not that Mr Narendra Modi is invincible. He might be defeated, offered we organise ourselves, make a significant surgical procedure and march ahead underneath the management of Sonia Gandhi.
Do you need the interim president to take over the reins of the get together as soon as once more?
Now there no time to deliberate on the interim president, and deliberate unnecessarily. She is our chief. There are dedicated leaders and dedicated staff. Even on the time of Nehru and Indira Gandhi, native management was constructed inside the Congress.
But that takes you again to the identical criticism, that if not Rahul, it is Sonia, if not Sonia it is Rahul. Will dynasty not develop into your weak spot once more?
Whether dynasty is weak spot or power, historical past will communicate. I needn’t communicate. People will decide by historical past. Party has been strengthened by the household of Nehru however, at identical time, they nurtured leaders like Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh and Lal Bahadur Shastri. That is additionally our historical past. People neglect that as of late whereas speaking of dynasty difficulty.
So will you make secularism your marketing campaign difficulty for elections?
Secularism is equal to nationalism on this nation. It’s complete. We can’t herald chauvinist politics … folks gained’t admire that. You can’t divide the society, that is what was completed by the British. The BJP is doing that … it’s dividing our society. Narendra Modi might be defeated, he is not invincible. That’s not a fable, it is a actuality. This, I firmly imagine.
But the get together has to totally look into the organisation from state stage, from the extent of Pradesh Congress and district Congress and Block stage… in all places. The dynamism must be injected in any respect ranges. At the AICC stage, president (chair) is not an open query. The query is, normal secretaries made in-charge at regional and state ranges, they should be dedicated, and mass-based and based mostly on the angle of the Congress get together.
Will senior leaders such as you take the initiative?
I’ve already given a system… what ought to be the sample, how we should proceed. I’ve already written to Sonia madam that she be taken severely by the central management. I don’t suppose we ought to be timid. Those who need to run away, allow them to run away. They anyway will. We can’t maintain on to them. They suppose there is alternative with the BJP. You ought to suppose alternative is with the Congress. Then solely Congress shall be firmed up.
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