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After a rather humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress is on a hunt of a new identity and a new leadership. Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been insisting to resign from his post, despite the party leaders rejecting his offer. The CWC rejected his resignation, saying the party needs his leadership and guidance.
Referring to his DNA piece, Poonawalla said, he firmly believes that one of the Gandhis, either Rahul or Priyanka, require at this juncture to take the Congress ahead. He said, Rahul has performed better and had more victories as compared to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the Lok Sabha elections being an exception.
Slamming the Congress, Poonawalla said their strategy is redundant and that they entertain the dead weights who bring no value to the party.
However, senior journalist Raseed Kidwai brushed-off Poonawalla’s remarks and said, it was a “laughable line of argument.”
“The entire CWC is appointed by Rahul. So, he owns every member of that committee. If he resigns, then all of them should resign. In Westminster model of parliamentary democracy, if a leader of the opposition fails to dislodge the incumbent PM, the leader of the opposition loses. I think Rahul is within his rights and democratic in not only offering to resign but by sticking to it,” Kidwai said.
Further, Kidwai said the grand old party is in need of a shock therapy and that Rahul’s exit is the ideal way forward. “Rahul had once said famously, ‘power is poison.’ Today I’m saying as a commentator, that in Rahul’s context, loyalty has become poison,” Kidwai said.
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