Thiruvananthapuram Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor would possibly run for Congress president. A ultimate name is awaited. The final time the 70-year-old fought a non-parliamentary election, he aimed for the moon! However the moon was out of his orbit. This time, if he does contest, and he was nonetheless mulling the choice, he could be aiming for the scorching solar!
Final heard, Tharoor held his playing cards near the chest. And Tharoor was asking for a “free and honest” election, which is an insult to the Congress and interprets to probabilities of electoral fraud! Additionally, he needed simultaneous elections for filling up 12 CWC vacancies. What does Tharoor need?
The Congress presidential election has been formally introduced, however the floor can be being ready to return Rahul Gandhi to the stewardship of the 137-year-old social gathering. Actually, if Tharoor goes forward and contests annoying the Congress excessive command, it’s fairly probably that he may have a style of the ‘free and honest’ polls he has been on the lookout for.
Even in any other case, electoral rolls are closely decked to favour Gandhi over wannabe foolhardy pretenders, Tharoor included. Additionally it is widespread information when a vote is solid for a Gandhi member of the family, that vote is for the whole clan, in toto. That mentioned, as soon as in a blue moon Congress leaders neglect they kowtow to the Gandhi household.
Today the blue moon is waxing, and the “Gandhis” are honest recreation. In any other case, politician-cum-legal eagle Kapil Sibal wouldn’t have walked away, mum as “ghai”! And rebel-at-73 Ghulam Nabi Azad wouldn’t have penned the completely disrespectful letter to Sonia Gandhi! Actually, it took practically two and half years for the G-23 to solid even half-hearted salvos in opposition to the mother-son excessive command.
True, fairly just a few Congress fixtures quietly unhitched and switched social gathering. From the quiet Tom Vadakan to the chirpy Priyanka Chaturvedi, from the un-loyal Himanta Biswa Sarma to the royal Jyotiraditya Scindia. The checklist of the quitters has now stretched and that could possibly be one of many the reason why this excuse for a Congress presidential election.
If the Gandhis, Rahul Gandhi specifically, hadn’t succeeded in undermining their very own standing within the eyes of most of the people, there wouldn’t be a necessity for a Congress presidential election. Issues would have continued as they have been for so long as the Gandhi household needed, advert nauseam.
Rahul Gandhi had give up the social gathering chief’s publish in 2019, quickly after loss within the basic elections. Right now, Rahul Gandhi acolytes say he’s the architect of the largest ever try at a Congress comeback: In 2019, the Congress sat “on a vote share of 12 crore voters”, and the “Rahul votes” are solely rising.
Even the Thiruvananthapuram votes that obtained Tharoor his MP seat have been “Rahul votes”. The 12 crore vote share of the Congress was second solely to the BJP’s. And it might be naïve to imagine this rising Rahul Gandhi vote share would drift AAP-ward, like some individuals prophesy. Additionally, this 12 crore vote-count was after Muslim voters give up voting Congress in a number of droves.
Leaders like Malikarjun Kharge, Harish Rawat and Jairam Ramesh wouldn’t give Tharoor an opportunity in a billion. For them, with no Gandhi on the helm, the Congress would go to the canines. The 2019 election was fought in Rahul’s identify. Can the 2024 elections be fought in Shashi Tharoor’s identify; or in Ashok Gehlot’s, or Sachin Pilot’s identify?
There wouldn’t be self-immolations, however most Congress rank and file imagine solely Rahul Gandhi has been constructing on the 12 crore vote-bank of 2019. Solely Rahul Gandhi has been combating Modi. No one remembers Ghulam Nabi Azad or Kapil Sibal campaigning in 2019. Solely Rahul Gandhi stood on the burning deck, the captain of the ship!
Moreover, Rahul Gandhi was Congress president in 2018 when Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh have been gained. So additionally Karnataka. The rank and file imagine fortunes will flip within the Congress’s favour. And the surroundings will get extraordinarily poisonous for any Congress chief who dares to place his hat within the ring in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.
As of immediately, the Wayanad MP is useless favorite, and the Thiruvananthapuram MP I belongs to ‘additionally ran’ Greater than the truth that no one dares stand in opposition to any of the Gandhis is the opposite incontrovertible fact that the Gandhis additionally settle for the primary truth in toto. Whoever thinks Shashi Tharoor can contest in opposition to a Gandhi, or in opposition to a Gandhi-appointed candidate, resides in a paradise filled with utopians.
The build-up for “Rahul Gandhi for Congress President” is just too far gone for anyone to buck the development. Solely the foolhardy will, and that at his personal peril. Chances are high on the day of the election, with Kharge and Rawat excessive up on the mast, there would solely be Rahul Gandhi standing on the deck, listening to the “tintinnabulation”, which word-o-maniac Tharoor ought to know stands for the “ringing or sounding of bells”. (IPA Service)
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