Patna41 minutes agoAuthor: Pranay Priyamvad
In the recent by-elections, the RJD did not give even those seats to the Congress which were the seats of the Congress.
Congress has appointed former Union Minister Akhilesh Prasad Singh as its new state president. There is already some political perception about them. He has been close to Lalu Prasad. This is a good thing and also not a good thing. How much does the party benefit from this? Will have to wait for that. Secondly, he is a strong leader. He was a minister in the center as well, so he understands politics from Delhi to Patna very well!
Why is Bihar Congress in such a situation, this is also the time to think. As soon as she became the state president, the state president of Mahila Congress Amita Bhushan resigned from the post. Even this is understandable, but in the room where Amita Bhushan used to sit. That room was vacated in his absence. His photos etc. were seen thrown in the dustbin. It is not that no one said anything about it.
Former Congress state president Anil Sharma criticized this on social media and said that ‘the tradition of Congress has not been like this, should have waited for Amita Bhushan’s arrival’. Tell the strength of Congress in Bihar that Congress has nine MLAs and three MLCs. Out of this, two MLAs are included in the cabinet. One Dalit and one Muslim. It is interesting in politics that only the parties living in alliance are engaged in weakening each other.
Congress has not accepted social engineering – Dhruv Kumar, senior journalist
Senior journalist Dhruv Kumar says that Congress has given many Chief Ministers in Bihar. It is believed that the core vote bank of the Congress is upper castes, Dalits and Muslims. But after 77, when the political scenario changed, Lohia’s words began to come true that the transfer of power would go through the OBCs to the Dalits. It started appearing. Socialists focused on social engineering. The situation further changed with the arrival of Karpoori Thakur and the Mandal Commission. Lalu Prasad also weakened the Congress a lot. Lalu Prasad ruled with backward and Muslims. Nitish brought the backward people with him along with Luv-Kush. Congress didn’t care about it. Congress did not accept social engineering like regional parties. The result was that the mass base of the Congress kept on slipping.
Congress has become weak in national interest- Asitnath Tiwari, State Spokesperson, Congress
In 989-90 two political events took place in India. Mandal and Kamandal. Mandal forwarded extreme casteism and Kamandal forwarded communalism. The Congress could not fit anywhere in these two. Congress didn’t even have to fit in. Congress kept fighting on important issues. That’s why the Congress kept getting weaker. Overall, the Congress did not make itself a part of divisive politics. The Congress kept getting weaker in the interest of the nation.
In coalition politics, Congress has been entitled many times – Anil Sharma
Senior Congress leader and former state president Anil Sharma says that the office bearer of the party is the ambassador of the party through whom the party takes its thinking, its policy among those communities. If the ambassador is weak then the party fails to establish its influence among those communities. This was the main reason for the weakness of the Bihar Congress.
Anil Sharma says that I have never been in favor of coalition politics. There is a big party gainer and a small party loser. Hitler used to say the same thing. Citing examples of many elections, he says that Lalu Prasad’s party took advantage of the Congress many times, but when it became strong, it reduced the seats of the Congress in the elections. Once Vajpayee’s government had dismissed Rabri Devi’s government. Then the Congress opposed the President’s rule at the Center and Rabri Devi again became the Chief Minister. But the 1999 Lok Sabha elections were held and Soniaji became the Speaker.
Sonia Gandhi, Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad at an event.
Lalu Prasad reduced 21 seats and gave 16 seats to Congress. RJD has seen its fate even after separating from Congress, but the extent is that in the recent by-elections, RJD did not give even those seats to Congress which were the seats of Congress.
On Akhilesh Singh being made the new state president of the Congress, Anil Sharma says that Akhilesh Singh has had an old relationship with the RJD, but if he was a RJD politician then why would he leave the RJD? Why did RJD not allow him to contest from the traditional Motihari seat in 2014? They say that the biggest reason for the weakness of the Congress is the dominance of individualism. Lack of collectivity, lack of mutual emotional attachment between workers and leaders.
Know the condition of Congress from Iqbal’s lion
Narrow eyes thought me to be an infidel, an infidel thinks that I am a Muslim. The Hindus felt that the Congress was anti-Hindu and the Muslims felt that it was anti-Muslim. Congress does not do politics of emotion.