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The Congress, way ahead
Senior Congress person Digvijay Singh’s abrupt but indirect excavation astatine the Congress civilization of adhering to 1 upmanship oregon bowing to the diktats of a household tin lone beryllium taken with a pinch of brackish (Inside pages, December 29). Top Congressmen, and this includes Mr. Digvijay Singh, person each on been contented with paying obeisance to 1 family. It paid them dividends successful the signifier of influential posts successful the organisation and astatine the governmental level. Congressmen astatine the grass-root levels person been made to believe, erroneously, that being subservient to 1 household is the lone mode to survive. The abrupt rethink astir the party’s way is due to the fact that the results of galore an predetermination are not favourable to the party. Another elder Congressman, Shashi Tharoor, has already taken the pb successful expressing his views successful a discreet manner. The Congress is present caught successful its ain web mostly due to the fact that of its ain actions. It volition instrumentality ages for Congressmen to extricate themselves from this rot and alteration the enactment into 1 that is tally successful a genuinely antiauthoritarian manner.
V. Subramanian,
Chennai
Ironically, the issues raised by some leaders — which is to fortify the Congress’s grass-root level organisation — seems to person fallen successful deaf ears. The Gandhi family, particularly Rahul Gandhi, has clip and again failed to triumph predetermination aft elections . Mr. Gandhi’s undignified and idiosyncratic attacks connected the Prime Minister person besides backfired. It is clip elder members of the Congress Party instrumentality the beforehand seat, guarantee that the voices of the grass-root workers are heard, and program realistic strategies to triumph elections.
N. Mahadevan,
Chennai
The messaging
The Prime Minister attending Christmas work astatine a religion successful Delhi, but maintaining a stony soundlessness amid concerns implicit attacks targeting churches and supplication meets exposes the dichotomy and duplicity of the BJP leadership. Mere articulator service, photograph ops and decorous solemnity astatine spiritual ceremonies are thing but appeasement politics. The deadly cocktail of mixing religion and authorities has seen unrest and unit successful our neighbouring countries. It is prudent we larn from their mistakes and marque indispensable corrections.
Dr. Biju C. Mathew,
Thiruvananthapuram
