when they say this, like milan vaishnav, who s a senior fellow at carnegie. i know milan. so milan says this, the truth is the liberal, secular vision of the congress party has fallen out of favour, the party s top down culture, and maybe that s what we re talking about here, is out of sync with the masses in india today. there i do agree, that was one of the points in my internal manifesto, as it were, for the party. i said, we ve got to end the high command culture, decentralise authority, empower the grassroots. i still hope that some of that will happen, even if i m not the standard bearer of that within the party. it s something which i ve stood for with a lot of conviction because it reflects a lot of what i ve heard in the party. what about the lesson of turkey when it comes to trying to challenge a very strong authoritarian. get the opposition parties together? get all the opposition parties together. it didn t quite work in turkey, but they got darn close. they got darn
scheduled for the 23rd ofjune, convened by the chief minister of bihar, mr nitish kumar, who doesn t belong to our party but to an allied party. and something like 20 opposition parties have confirmed that they will attend. right, but does congress demand a guarantee that it will be the lead? it doesn t, and in my view, it should not. i think that when the time comes, that is when you ve actually agreed upon a common minimum programme, a common manifesto, and you have in as many constituencies as possible, not all of them, but perhaps a good two thirds of the constituencies, one agreed opposition candidate to take on the bjp, then you have the good prospect of a positive result. and as we see in parliamentary systems, let the victorious coalition choose its leader. now, i don t want to just talk to you as an active politician, i want to tap into your vision as an historian as well. an amateur historian, more of a writer. whatever. you ve just written a book which profiles, focuses on,
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