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Congress person Shashi Tharoor connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) came retired successful enactment of the views of his enactment workfellow Digvijaya Singh, saying the organisation should beryllium strengthened.
At the 140th Foundation Day lawsuit astatine the Congress' Indira Bhawan headquarters, Mr. Tharoor was seated adjacent to Digvijaya Singh and exchanged notes.
Ahead of the CWC conscionable connected Saturday, Mr. Singh created a flutter by lauding the organisational powerfulness of RSS-BJP arsenic helium shared Narendra Modi's aged representation and said however a grassroots idiosyncratic went connected to go the Chief Minister and Prime Minister by sitting astatine the feet of their leaders.
He besides raised the contented of strengthening the Congress organisation astatine the grassroots level, asserting it was overmuch needed successful the combat against the ruling BJP and to oust it from power.
A time later, Digvijaya Singh said helium had already stated immoderate helium had to say. "For 50 years I person been with the Congress party, and I person fought these communal forces, whether successful the Assembly, Parliament oregon successful the organisation," helium noted.
"I person basal differences and americium opposed to their ideology. I person and volition proceed to combat against specified people," Mr. Singh claimed. When asked to remark connected his Saturday's remarks, helium said, "Every organisation needs strengthening.”
Mr. Tharoor, erstwhile asked to remark connected the issue, said, "The organisation should beryllium strengthened, determination is nary doubt."
On being seated adjacent to Mr. Singh and whether the 2 exchanged views connected the matter, Mr. Tharoor said, "We support talking with each other, we are friends and speech to each other."
"It is the 140th instauration time of the Congress. It is simply a precise important lawsuit for the party. It is simply a time successful which we look backmost connected our precise singular past and the contributions the enactment has made to the nation," helium besides told reporters.
In a station connected X, the Thiruvananthapuram MP said, "Today marks the 140th day of the founding of the Indian National Congress, an organisation that played a pivotal relation successful starring India's conflict for independency from British rule."
"Since its archetypal league successful 1885, the enactment has remained a cornerstone of the nation's antiauthoritarian travel and governmental evolution. The juncture was marked with solemnity and camaraderie astatine Indira Bhavan today," Mr. Tharoor said successful his post.
Meanwhile, Congress person Supriya Shrinate said, "I consciousness the BJP is distorting the intent of Digvijaya's post. The Sangh, which spreads hatred and gets inspiration from the ideology of Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi, we don't request to larn thing from them."
"We are the Indian National Congress, and we fought the state conflict against injustice and exploitation of the British rule, and turned it into a Jan Andolan. We don't request to larn thing from anyone; rather, others should larn from us," Ms. Shrinate claimed.
Senior Congress person Salman Khurshid said, "We person a batch successful the Congress, and others should larn from the Congress instead. We surely don't request to larn from the RSS arsenic we reason that ideology."
Another leader, Rajiv Shukla, said, "The roots of this enactment are truthful heavy that they tin ne'er beryllium wiped out."
