Congress Must Clear Confusion Of Opposition Leader

By: Jan 6th, 2018 12:34 am

Political Analysis

Himachal This Week

It has become order of the day in Congress party that matters continue to hang fire and delays are often taking away the opportunity to move ahead. Leader of Opposition normally should be the legislature who has majority support. But it is not clear if it will be followed as the atmosphere is may be or may not be, political observers point out. Even if finally it turns out to be the legislature who commands majority, yet the process is unnecessarily keeping the suspense on for a long.

Sushil Kumar Shinde, the party’s state affairs in charge, comes from Delhi and drives straight to former chief minister Virbhadra Singh’s residence where 12 legislatures were present reportedly to demonstrate the support to Raja as he is popularly called. President of the party Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu continued to wait for him with garlands and three legislatures in party office. Later the delayed meeting took place. Shinde talked individually to all one by one and flew away to Delhi with one line resolution supported by all, authorising Congress’s national president Rahul Gandhi to give them a leader.

What should Congress do when half a dozen candidates are lobbying for the post and a dozen standing hand in hand with Raja? The party should decide on merit and ensure the long term future of the party but it might not finally emerge as the rational course but only a wish, political observers add.

In campaigning for the party and facing the electorate, the state party affairs in charge has been shouldering responsibility of conducting election to achieve results. But there was no agenda to examine his role and how it miserably failed. The party continues to be centrally administered without accountability. After this humiliating defeat, the party must have changed the in charge and taken action against those who let the party down including the rebels, political observers point out. Like Gujarat is waiting a leader of opposition, Himachal also is in suspense.


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