If you survive in Bakrid, you will dance on Muharram, first if you win me then it is right (If we survive Bakrid, we will dance on Muharram, but let me win first),” said Mallikarjun Kharge two weeks ago when asked what he plans on winning the Congress president election.
This count faced repeated questions during his campaign in the light of a detailed manifesto of his rival Shashi Tharoor, Kharge He later said he had a “single-point” agenda to implement the Congress’s Udaipur Declaration. This left many in the Tharoor camp wondering whether implementing the Udaipur Declaration was ever an option.
“We fight some battles because history can remember that the present was not silent,” Tharoor said in a cryptic tweet after voting began on Monday. But his vision and thoughts are something like Congress One should consider and adopt the path of ‘Parivartan’ and build a new narrative against the almighty BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi.
Tharoor Condemned by senior Congress leaders for being ‘elite’, but in Parliament and other forums, Tharoor’s scathing attack on the BJP has gone unnoticed in the past. Kharge’s recent remarks that he would have no hesitation in taking advice from the Gandhi family underscored the feeling among many that he is an ‘unofficial official candidate’ and that the Gandhi family is unwilling to give up their grip on the party.
10 ‘ideas’ of Tharoor
What are some of Shashi Tharoor’s thoughts from which Congress could do well to learn from? The bigger idea is of course the vision of “decentralized leadership at all levels” with de facto powers to state Congress presidents and ‘reimagining’ the role of Congress headquarters. This has been the bane of the Congress, reflected in the many defeats in the state elections, while the BJP has seriously invested in its state leadership.
Giving the party president and office-bearers a term of not more than 10 years and electing half of the CWC members by election are other radical ideas proposed by Tharoor to bring the Congress organization to the top – something which was an antithesis to the party. So far. Monthly CWC meetings and a “chairman accessible to party workers” were Tharoor’s other ideas, besides implementing the Udaipur Declaration of ‘one man, one post’.
The broader spirit of Tharoor’s campaign was centered on change as the current model has not worked to challenge the BJP. With Mallikarjun Kharge in the chair, many feel that ‘change’ may not happen, or certainly will not happen as fast as the party needs in the 2024 general elections. Including Tharoor in the right spirit, rather than turning Tharoor away from a contest, could serve the Congress under Kharge’s leadership well.
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