Letters: Business model for Cong | Business Standard Letters
Letters: Business model for Cong | Business Standard Letters
My VIEW:
My VIEW:
The nation needs the
Congress heritage. Kejriwal once said about politics that people are fed up
with bad political leadership and not with politics per se. It is the
BPL(Businessmen-Politician-Lawyer) combine which hijacked Congress, kept some
dummy leadership or ‘employees’ in position which danced to its tunes that has
brought disrepute and apparent irrelevance to the party.
Congress heritage. Kejriwal once said about politics that people are fed up
with bad political leadership and not with politics per se. It is the
BPL(Businessmen-Politician-Lawyer) combine which hijacked Congress, kept some
dummy leadership or ‘employees’ in position which danced to its tunes that has
brought disrepute and apparent irrelevance to the party.
As rightly pointed out in
the edit, the ideology comprising secularism, welfare of the underprivileged,
commitment to constitutional democracy and desire to promote equitable economic
growth are all still relevant. These tenets cannot be partitioned among other
political parties and India cannot afford to abandon that heritage.
the edit, the ideology comprising secularism, welfare of the underprivileged,
commitment to constitutional democracy and desire to promote equitable economic
growth are all still relevant. These tenets cannot be partitioned among other
political parties and India cannot afford to abandon that heritage.
It is also true that the
party’s leadership failed in their responsibility or refused to see the
writings on the wall for a considerably long period. After milking the party
machinery dry, some of its leaders have returned to their lucrative
professions. Only a total revamp within which should be led by the post-independence
generation(I have no one person in mind!) which respects inner-party democracy,
forcing the party to go to the grass roots and depending on the party members
for finance can give a face-lift to Congress. It still has the ‘infrastructure’
and human resources across the country to achieve this.
party’s leadership failed in their responsibility or refused to see the
writings on the wall for a considerably long period. After milking the party
machinery dry, some of its leaders have returned to their lucrative
professions. Only a total revamp within which should be led by the post-independence
generation(I have no one person in mind!) which respects inner-party democracy,
forcing the party to go to the grass roots and depending on the party members
for finance can give a face-lift to Congress. It still has the ‘infrastructure’
and human resources across the country to achieve this.
M
G WARRIER, Thiruvananthapuram
G WARRIER, Thiruvananthapuram
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