New Delh: Congress veteran Anand Sharma, a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), has raised sturdy objections to the social gathering’s Lok Sabha election marketing campaign centered across the caste-based census, calling it a “departure from the historic place and likewise amounting to disrespecting the legacy of former Congress PMs Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi”.
Recalling the inclusive and all-encompassing method of the Congress social gathering, Anand Sharma cited widespread slogans by Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and stated that the social gathering’s present stand will come as an indictment of earlier Congress governments. Additionally, it’ll give political opponents of Congress a deal with to throw muck at it.
“Na Jaat Par na paat par, Mohar lagegi haath par,” Sharma quoted Indira Gandhi’s clarion name of 1980.
He additional quoted Rajiv Gandhi’s historic name because the Opposition chief within the Lok Sabha in 1990, the place the previous PM stated, “We’ve got issues if caste is outlined to enshrine casteism in our nation. We’ve got issues if casteism goes to be made an element for Parliamentary and Meeting constituencies. The Congress can’t stand by and watch this nation being divided.”
The CWC chief additionally hinted at lack of coordination within the social gathering, and stated, “The participation of District and Pradesh Congress Committees in consultative course of would have helped in constructing a broad inner consensus.”
Sharma’s objection to the Congress stand on caste census has caught the social gathering off guard because the latter has been striving to make it a rallying level forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Rahul Gandhi’s ballot pitch for ‘jitni abadi, utna haq’ has already been termed ‘backward and regressive’ by political pundits and now with discordant voices inside the social gathering, its marketing campaign might flounder and hit a tough patch.
Anand Sharma is without doubt one of the G-23 leaders who wrote a scathing letter to the then Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 2021 and referred to as for sweeping adjustments within the social gathering’s construction and functioning.
