The Congress, which had said it had won the freedom movement for the country by taking to the streets, is back on the drawing board, with its president Sonia Gandhi announcing the launch of a ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan’, where senior party leaders and workers take to the streets. But will come down. To address the issues of the people.
While the Congress was deliberating on its strategy over tea and snacks inside the media room at its headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday, a short distance away, the Trinamool Congress held a press conference and accused the Congress of going into the comfort zone and not being confrontational. accused of being
TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhedu Shekhar Roy, who was asked about TMC’s expansion plans, said, “How long can we wait for Congress? On her visit to Delhi for a few months, Mamata Banerjee told Sonia Gandhi that the Congress as a national party should take the lead, and wake up from its inertia. But now TMC cannot wait for Congress. We are a political party and we have every right to expand.”
The Congress meeting chaired by Sonia Gandhi came a day after Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s close aide and former Uttar Pradesh MLA Lalitesh Tripathi joined the TMC, who is likely to be rewarded with the Rajya Sabha seat. It is quite possible that the aggressive Tripathi will be the main figure for TMC in Uttar Pradesh.
Defection was the elephant in the room recently, at a Congress meeting on the upcoming UP elections. While many were unwilling to mention the exit, the fact that the Samajwadi Party, Aam Aadmi Party and Trinamool Congress were rising at the behest of the Congress was not lost.
According to sources, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that no one can be trusted and that Congress cannot develop if it thinks of others and not of itself. Choudhary also said that the party should have a state in-charge to prevent Mamata Banerjee from entering Uttar Pradesh. Jitin Prasad, who was the state in-charge of West Bengal during the elections, has since left the Congress to join the BJP.
The fact is that while Mamata Banerjee is ready to give more time to the Congress because of her personal equation with Sonia Gandhi, TMC national general secretary Abhishek is clearly in a hurry.
Sources say that he dominated the party and Mamta that she can no longer depend on the Congress to oust the BJP from power. And this is the reason why he has made the sharpest remarks on Congress recently.
According to sources, leaders like Lalitesh Tripathi and Sushmita Dev, who left the Congress to join TMC, mainly due to frustration with the armchair style of politics. Recently a member associated with TMC said, “The attacks on us by our opponents are not considered… That’s what TMC and Mamata Banerjee are. This is really a badge of honour. Congress is afraid of being hurt.” And when you’re afraid, you can’t win the election.
The Congress won 52 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and completely lost in states like Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, where it formed the government. In the next Lok Sabha elections, the Congress may not perform well and may even lose states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu where it did well in this assembly election.
According to TMC leaders, if any PM decides the candidate, it is TMC and not Congress. And TMC has decided that Mamata Banerjee will have to project herself as the PM face against Narendra Modi for the 2024 elections.
Sources also say that the TMC will over time open doors for parties like TRS and Jagan Reddy’s YSR Congress as they help it build numbers. Though these parties, including the Biju Janata Dal, have yet to open their cards, the TMC is hopeful that by the end of 2024, they may drop their reluctance and come on board.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leaders in today’s meeting have apparently been tasked to ensure that they connect with the people, and take their movements forward. But the irony is that a party, which considers itself to be a march over others, will have to go back on the streets and shut down the TMC and the AAP, which appear to be on the ground more often than the Congress.
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