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Unless the Congress accepts coalitions, it cannot succeed
The Congress may have saved face in the recent Assembly elections, but its relations with partners are deteriorating fast. Things soured further when its
Maharashtra ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), decided to send Bajaj Auto Chairman Rahul Bajaj to the Rajya Sabha, to fill the seat vacated by Pramod Mahajan’s death. Bajaj was primarily backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena, both opposed to the Congress.
Recapitulating, the Congress was hoping to put up a joint candidate despite recent strains with the NCP. But when the NCP backed Bajaj, Congress General Secretary Margaret Alva accused NCP Chief Sharad Pawar of reneging on his words. Pawar’s colleague, Tariq Anwar, claimed the Congress first backtracked by not offering to the NCP even one of the four legislative council seats in Maharashtra.
An embarrassed Congress hastily announced the candidature of Maharashtra General Secretary Avinash Pandey for the Rajya Sabha, but faced certain defeat. Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi then accused the NCP of working with communal forces. He carefully added that this would have no impact on either the union or the state government. Unfortunately now, the Congress also has strained relations with its Andhra Pradesh ally, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and Jammu & Kashmir’s PDP.
It’s time for the Congress to learn the dynamics of coalitions to improve relations with allies. The key to power in 2004, after all, was party President Sonia Gandhi’s ability to forge better alliances as compared to the BJP. A repeat victory would surely depend on that again. To an extent, Congress’ problems with allies arise because the party believes it can do better by itself. But the party needs to understand that if it had been that easy to be the lone ranger with monopoly power, the situation in the last elections would have been much different. Clearly, if the Congress continues to toe its aggressive stance, there are only two words that will describe its future: Sure defeat.
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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006, Editor - Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
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Unless the Congress accepts coalitions, it cannot succeed
The Congress may have saved face in the recent Assembly elections, but its relations with partners are deteriorating fast. Things soured further when its
Maharashtra ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), decided to send Bajaj Auto Chairman Rahul Bajaj to the Rajya Sabha, to fill the seat vacated by Pramod Mahajan’s death. Bajaj was primarily backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena, both opposed to the Congress.Recapitulating, the Congress was hoping to put up a joint candidate despite recent strains with the NCP. But when the NCP backed Bajaj, Congress General Secretary Margaret Alva accused NCP Chief Sharad Pawar of reneging on his words. Pawar’s colleague, Tariq Anwar, claimed the Congress first backtracked by not offering to the NCP even one of the four legislative council seats in Maharashtra.
An embarrassed Congress hastily announced the candidature of Maharashtra General Secretary Avinash Pandey for the Rajya Sabha, but faced certain defeat. Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi then accused the NCP of working with communal forces. He carefully added that this would have no impact on either the union or the state government. Unfortunately now, the Congress also has strained relations with its Andhra Pradesh ally, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and Jammu & Kashmir’s PDP.
It’s time for the Congress to learn the dynamics of coalitions to improve relations with allies. The key to power in 2004, after all, was party President Sonia Gandhi’s ability to forge better alliances as compared to the BJP. A repeat victory would surely depend on that again. To an extent, Congress’ problems with allies arise because the party believes it can do better by itself. But the party needs to understand that if it had been that easy to be the lone ranger with monopoly power, the situation in the last elections would have been much different. Clearly, if the Congress continues to toe its aggressive stance, there are only two words that will describe its future: Sure defeat.
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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006, Editor - Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
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