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Rasheed Kidwai
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Assuming that the Congress has a ‘durbar’ or ‘high command culture’, it needs a cogent durbar policy too, particularly in the selection of chief ministers of the party-ruled states.
This felt need assumes significance in the context of the fall of Puducherry government in a bizarre and pathetic manner with the V Narayanasamy government losing majority barely two months before the Assembly polls.
On the face of it, there is a simplistic and perhaps convincing narrative of putting the blame on the BJP’s doorstep. Narayanasamy dubbed his fall from the chief ministerial post as a ‘murder of democracy’ and accused the BJP of indulging in ‘poaching’ and ‘political prostitution’. Similar allegations were levelled when the Congress was upstaged or deprived of forming a government in Goa, Manipur, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.
Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Following dispute among Congress leaders on Pala MLA Mani C Kappan joining the UDF as an ally, the 10- member AICC-appointed Election Management and Strategic Committee’s second sitting decided to pass the buck to the next UDF meeting.AICC organising general secretary K C Venugopal maintained that K Sudhakaran MP’s frequent comments on ‘toddy tapper’ should be immediately stopped lest it affects the prospects of the UDF in the Assembly elections.
Ever since Kappan joined the UDF camp, KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran had been demanding that he should be joining the Congress. It should be recalled that Kappan has been awaiting the central leadership’s permission to form Kerala NCP. Mullappally’s view is that Kappan should join the Congress as they feel that NCP being an ally of the UPA at the Centre and when it comes to the state, it is with the LDF camp, will not benefit the party.
Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot has said that the BJP-RSS combine is "destroying" Indian democracy through wrong policies and administrative measures.Gehlot was addressing Kerala Pradesh Congress .