(Congress is one of the two largest parties in India. It has been in power many times at the Center and many times in the states. The Congress has a good deal of experience in running the country.) It also has the political legacy of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. Muslims in India have also been looking at the Congress with optimism Because in each of his reigns things have been better overall. The Bharatiya Janata Party has been in power in many states for more or less two decades.
Even now, the BJP is in power in Gujarat. Under the BJP, difficulties have been created for Muslims at both the state and central levels. Gujarat is an important state where the reputation of the Congress has been improving in case of success. She is now fighting for her survival in this state. The strengthening of the Congress is also very important for the Muslims of the state to ensure a somewhat secular atmosphere. In the article under review, Jaish Thakrar, author of the Gujarati-language newspaper Sandesh, published from Ahmedabad, has explored the prospects of the Congress.
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Anything can happen in politics anytime. Successive defeats may follow. In such a scenario, it is very difficult to maintain high morale for a complete victory. The Congress is facing a similar situation at the moment. Gujarat has less than a year left in the state assembly elections. In such a scenario, it is a great challenge for the Congress to prepare itself for full competition.
In the form of Jagdish Thackeray, 64, with 37 years of experience in politics, the Congress has found a leader in Gujarat. He got this post at a time when nomination papers for 10,000 gram panchayat elections have been submitted. The Congress has been out of power in Gujarat for 27 years. Every time she goes to the polls, she falls asleep. It is very easy to say that in electoral politics there are always defeats and victories. The fact is that successive defeats are difficult to digest. Today's politics is a means of gaining a position and promoting business interests under the umbrella of government. That is why the number of people leaving the Congress is increasing. When the shore is not visible, the workers are disappointed and prefer to jump out of the boat. There is no shortage of leaders in Congress. The leader who has been deprived of the vote bank has proved to be a liability for the party. Together they have divided the Congress into factions. Leave the rest of the country, If you look at Gujarat itself, the Congress is divided into several factions. Immediate and complete cure of the disease of division must be discovered. If the Congress wants to win the state assembly election, it will have to pave the way for many changes within itself. The Congress is also struggling for second place at the local body level in Gujarat. A strong democracy requires a strong opposition. In such a scenario, new life is also necessary for the Congress. It is up to the Congress to decide how to get up after the fall and be able to get back on its feet.
Even when Sonia Gandhi successfully sidelined the Congress across the country with the slogan "Shining India", the party faced many daunting challenges. Opportunities keep coming and going in politics. Every political party has to be ready for any situation. In Gujarat, the Congress has given the task of restoring the vote bank to Jagdish Thackeray as the leader and Sikh Ram Rathwa as the Leader of the Opposition. Jagdish Thackeray is one of the leading leaders of Thackeray in North Gujarat and Sikh Ram Rathwa holds an important place in the tribal society of Central and South Gujarat. The Congress wants to strengthen the vote bank by dividing posts on the basis of race and community, while the Bharatiya Janata Party has been doing the same for two decades. There is more enthusiasm among its workers. Leaders of both the major parties in Gujarat have also started mentioning workers in their speeches. What's so significant about a goat's head? ” Only workers can win and lose. If the BJP has started giving tickets to the workers, then the Congress will have to do the same.
This is a very difficult time for the Congress. He will have to make revolutionary decisions to rise. The Congress is now nominal in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. The same is true of the Congress in the big cities of Gujarat. What Sonia Gandhi has done to revitalize the Congress in Gujarat has not yielded any results. Handing over the leadership to Jagdish Thackeray can be expected to give a new lease of life to the Congress in Gujarat. It's time to dump her and move on. At this juncture, the Congress must first stop the process of division at the internal level. On the other hand, issues are also needed to attract the masses. The Congress, which has a record of winning 404 Lok Sabha seats across the country, is not even in a position to do fifty in the Lok Sabha today. There is a need for reflection in such cases. The problem is that Congress provincial and local officials are reluctant to make decisions according to the delicacy of the situation. And as a result, the graph of frustration among workers is rising.
Politics today is all about stirring up the latest issues. There is only one way to keep workers motivated. There are many issues in the country from inflation to corona virus outbreak on which politics can be based. The problem is that the Congress cannot take advantage of these issues because not only are Rahul Gandhi's qualifications being questioned but he is also being ridiculed. Prashant Kishore says that leadership is not an innate and eternal privilege. Mamata Banerjee has also said that whenever I come to Delhi, it is not necessary to meet Sonia Gandhi.
In politics, sometimes the period of difficulties is very long, but this is the period in which one is motivated to examine one's shortcomings, weaknesses and shortcomings.The Congress should pay more attention to the fact that it has to somehow maintain its existence than to win the elections in Gujarat.
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