The Congress party today has no place for people who speak against it and the most recent examples are that Ghulam Nabi Azadi and Anand Sharma.
Anand Sharma criticised the Congress alliance with the Indian Secular Front in West Bengal and termed it as a fundamentalist party. Anand Sharma, in a tweet on Monday, said, “Congress’ alliance with parties like ISF and other such forces militates against the core ideology of the party and Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism, which forms the soul of the party. These issues need to be approved by the CWC.”
On the other hand, Ghulam Nabi Azad was insulted for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At a time when the party is undergoing the biggest political crisis ever due to internal conflicts and clashes, it is also important to understand what Rahul Gandhi is doing.
Rahul Gandhi is currently on a visit to Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry and is campaigning for the upcoming Assembly elections. But the internal fight in Congress has increased considerably and the Congress is only so-called secular.
In fact, so much so that the ‘so-called’ secular Congress has formed a coalition with a fundamentalist party, the Indian Secular Front in West Bengal. And the party was formed a few days ago. It is to be noted here that the left parties have also announced to contest the elections. Imagine that the left parties oppose politics in the name of religion and mislead the people, but for their own benefit, they join hands with parties whose political structure is infected with communal considerations.
To understand this, you have to know more about this party.
The party named Indian Secular Front has been formed by Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui of Hooghly and is the religious guru of Furfura Sharif Mazar and they have also been accused of making provocative and communal speeches many times.
The important thing here is that the party had earlier tried to enter into a coalition with Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM.
Now, the Congress and its alliance are being opposed because the Congress tells itself to be a secular party and claims that it is against political communalism. But the fact is that he has only entered into a coalition with a party for electoral politics in West Bengal, which is leaning towards fundamentalism.
Anand Sharma also questioned the same today, after which Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary in the Lok Sabha also turned down on him. The day-long quarrel between Congress leaders and the attacks on Anand Sharma intensified. That is, the party which describes itself as impartial and talks about expression and they did not like Anand Sharma’s words. Anand Sharma questioned the party leadership and his gesture was directly towards Sonia Gandhi, and perhaps that is why she became the target of several party leaders.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was also attacked for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress workers started burning his effigies. Leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad would never have imagined in a dream that his party people would insult him one day.
Congress is not new to controversies and since Independence, it has broken as many as 50 times. But, let us understand how the current crisis in Congress is different in many ways:
1) This is for the first time since Independence when the Congress is out of power for seven years and this is a major reason for the party’s discord and political confrontation. Earlier, from 1996 to 2004, the Congress had been out of government for the highest eight years. However, from 1996 to 1998, there was a united front government in the country and this government was supported by the Congress from outside.
2) In the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019, the Congress got a historic defeat and the defeat led the party to a deadlock.
3) The Congress has a full majority government in only three states of India – Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
4) This is for the first time that the Congress command is in the hands of the Gandhi family, but despite that many party leaders are criticising its policies and decisions. In the Congress crisis of 1969, 1977 and 1999, the key thing was that the Congress leadership was not with Gandhi and the Nehru family at that time.
Source: dnaindia.com