Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 9
Janardan Dwivedi, veteran Congress man and the party’s longest serving general secretary organisation, today broke silence on the ongoing impasse in the party and said Rahul Gandhi should not have left a gap in the process of succession and he could still fill it.
“Gandhi is Congress president till the Congress Working Committee accepts his resignation. He can still set up a structure to elicit responses on who next Congress president should be. A gap in the structure of succession was left. That was not correct,” Dwivedi said today, expressing anguish at the fact that while Gandhi resigned from his post owning responsibility for the party’s defeat, no one else followed him.
Dwivedi, who was AICC general secretary organisation with Congress presidents Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, PV Narasimha Rao, Sitaram Kesri, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, red flagged the process being adopted for the appointment of next Congress president wherein few veterans are discussing issues.
“Who is selecting the new Congress president? Rahul Gandhi is still Congress chief. Has the CWC authorised anyone? This approach is flawed. Some leaders are meeting to discuss in the name of coordination committee. Where is a coordination committee? It automatically dissolved after Lok Sabha elections. Which is this committee that does not have the attendance of veteran AK Antony?” Dwivedi asked, searching questions hitting out at those who continued in their posts even after Rahul resigned.
Dwivedi, 73, disclosed today that ascribing to the view of youngsters being given prominent roles, he, way back on September 15, 2014, resigned as AICC general secretary organisation.
“I went to then party president Sonia Gandhi and resigned but she did not accept my resignation and asked me to refrain from making the issue public. I continued till 2016 when I finally relinquished my charge,” Dwivedi said.
He said the Congress would not have been where it was had it followed the path of values shown by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Dwivedi also cited Sonia’s resignation as Lok Sabha MP over the office of profit controversy and Rahul’s resignation to say parties that don’t sacrifice anything can’t seek anything either.
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