Why Rahul-Priyanka move in Punjab marks change of direction for Congress Shekhar Gupta underscores 3 stories; the BJP-fication of the Congress and Congressisation of the BJP. https://youtube.com/embed/mT7-v5BosHg?start=12&end=665
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Punjab Congress battle isn’t about Navjot Sidhu or Amarinder Singh. It’s about Gandhis D.K. Singh 20 July, 2021 https://theprint.in/opinion/politically-correct/punjab-congress-battle-isnt-about-navjot-sidhu-or-amarinder-singh-its-about-gandhis/698980/
The Gandhi siblings have now decided to go for the kill — re-establish unquestioned supremacy. The detractors must fall in line or leave.
It’s about the Gandhis and their idea of creative destruction to revive the party, no matter how unthinking or brazen it may look to those outside the family.
The Gandhi siblings seem to have taken a call that they must break from the politics pursued by their mother, Sonia Gandhi, since 1998 — dealing with naysayers through dialogue, persuasion and reconciliation.
The Gandhi siblings are prepared for a showdown now, knowing well that the organisational set-up – which enabled them to have their point persons on key positions — and Congresspersons’ belief in TINA (there is no alternative) factor makes their ouster next to impossible. Even if a section of Congress leaders find the party’s first family an electoral liability, the latter remains well-ensconced.
See who all they have been appointing state Congress chiefs. Rahul Gandhi may be breathing fire against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) ideology, but he is fine handing over the party’s reins in Telangana to Revanth Reddy, a former activist of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’ wing of the RSS, who joined the Congress in 2017. The new Punjab Congress president, Navjot Sidhu, left the BJP after 13 years in 2017 to try to realise his chief ministerial ambitions either in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) or in the Congress. AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal couldn’t have someone else become the CM of a full-fledged state. So, Sidhu joined the Congress. Nana Patole left the BJP to join the Congress in 2018; he was appointed Maharashtra Congress chief three years later. Congress veterans mustn’t, therefore, be in any illusion about their ideology and loyalty being a protective shield behind which they can question the Gandhis’ style of running the Congress.