It is legitimate to ask if the UPA brought about the decline within the Congress’ fortunes, Manish Tewari mentioned. (File)
New Delhi:
Rumblings inside the Congress got here to the fore on Friday with a piece of its leaders in search of introspection on the get together’s electoral losses and a former Union minister asking whether or not the UPA was “sabotaged” from inside forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Demands for an sincere appraisal surfaced throughout a gathering of the Congress’ Rajya Sabha MPs on Thursday within the presence of get together chief Sonia Gandhi.
Some younger MPs, together with Rajeev Satav, the AICC in-charge for Gujarat, are learnt to have requested on the assembly for the hyperlink between the UPA authorities’s efficiency and the Congress’ electoral downfall to be reviewed.
Reacting to the discontent inside, former Union minister Manish Tewari on Friday mentioned whereas it’s legitimate to ask if the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) brought about the decline within the Congress’ fortunes, it’s also vital to find out if the UPA was sabotaged from inside.
“Was UPA responsible for the decline in Fortunes of Congress in 2014 is a valid question and must be gone into? Equally valid is was UPA sabotaged from within? 2019 defeat must also be analysed,” he wrote on Twitter.
Mr Tewari mentioned no cost in opposition to the Congress-led UPA has stood the check of legislation even after six years of its relinquishing workplace.
His reference was to the alleged corruption within the 2G Spectrum allocation, which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used as a serious ballot plank in opposition to the Congress within the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
Mr Tewari’s public remarks got here a day after some MPs known as for introspection inside the get together and ascertaining as as to whether the Congress is paying for the follies in the course of the UPA tenure.
Sources mentioned calls for for resolving the management problem within the Congress have been additionally raised at Thursday’s assembly and the divide between the previous guard of the get together and younger leaders was evident.
The Congress has seen kids getting “disenchanted” with the prevailing energy construction within the get together with former MP and a long-time Rahul Gandhi confidante Jyotiraditya Scindia quitting to hitch the BJP this yr.
Another younger turk Sachin Pilot, the previous deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, has raised a banner of revolt in opposition to his personal authorities within the state, inflicting consternation throughout the rank and file of the grand previous get together.
The Congress, nonetheless, dismissed reviews of rift inside the get together, terming them “fiction” and a product of the “BJP’s propaganda factory”.
Asked concerning the prevailing anxieties between the older and youthful leaders, get together spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill mentioned, “As a spokesperson of a national party, we only reply to facts and not fiction.”
“The stories about internal rumblings in the Congress party and the fight between the young and old guard is a figment of imagination, fiction and a product of the BJP’s propaganda factory, merely unleashed in the market to cover their faultlines and failures in the health infrastructure and national security of the country,” he mentioned at a digital press convention.
Mr Shergill mentioned moderately than focussing on the “so-called internal fights” of the Congress, which do exist, it could be higher if the BJP focused on the coronavirus and the nation’s battle in opposition to China.
“The Congress is united. We will emerge stronger in 2024 and silence all our critics,” he mentioned.
Asked concerning the calls for for introspection, Mr Shergill mentioned the get together has neither shied away from introspecting on its electoral losses nor from taking accountability.
“Whether it is a win or a loss, the Congress has always introspected and will introspect on its poll strategy, election wins and losses. We have always taken victory with humility and learnt from our losses,” he mentioned.