Why Rahul Gandhi’s private overseas visits are underneath scrutiny?

Image Source : PTI Why Rahul Gandhi’s private overseas visits are underneath scrutiny?
Rahul Gandhi is barely a Congress MP and doesn’t maintain any get together publish as he had already stepped down as its President after the 2019 Lok Sabha debacle – the second in a row for his get together. But every time he goes in a foreign country on a private journey, he finally ends up being trolled by the opposition whereas questions are raised by his critics within the get together — although they don’t specific these publicly.

Ahead of the get together’s Foundation Day in December, Gandhi went overseas on a private go to and it was get together General Secretary and spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala who introduced that he was not within the nation.

“Rahul Gandhi is on a short personal visit to see his ailing grandmother. He is not on a holiday,” he mentioned, including that as a celebration employee, Gandhi performs all of the duties assigned to him.

Slamming the BJP over its criticism, Surjewala mentioned the BJP mustn’t touch upon somebody’s private visits.

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Senior get together chief and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad mentioned that for 136 years “we have been celebrating the foundation day of the Congress, regardless of someone being present or absent”.

But Rahul Gandhi is scarcely an atypical get together MP. Sacked Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha notes that he “must recognise that in politics there is no margin for error. You have to be very aware that questions will be asked of you”.

The Congress is, nonetheless, all the time vocal in Gandhi’s defence. General Secretary, Organisation, Ok. C. Venugopal slammed the BJP for questioning his journeys overseas, saying that “everyone has the right to undertake personal visits”.

He mentioned that the BJP is indulging in petty politics and they’re focusing on Rahul Gandhi as a result of they need to goal just one chief.

But the possible cause why the previous Congres President is within the firing line every time he goes overseas is the get together’s electoral defeats and that whereas Gandhi, although critical in taking up Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lacks consistency.

This was the opinion of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar after the Bihar Assembly polls the place the Congress’ poor efficiency prevented from the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan from getting the numbers to kind the federal government.

However, his comment had left the Congress upset and the NCP needed to make clear that it was “friendly advice”.

However, the RJD had additionally cited Gandhi’s vacation in the course of the election campaigning as an element for the loss.

The Congress, ever since shedding energy in 2014, is on the trail of decline besides in 2018 when it received the Assembly polls in three states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh — although its authorities in Madhya Pradesh proved to be short-lived.

Gandhi even couldn’t cease his shut buddy Jyotiraditya Scindia from leaving the get together and thus, dooming the federal government. Apart from Scindia, Sachin Pilot, one other younger chief and Deputy Chief Minister in Rajasthan too rebelled, however was well timed intervened by veteran chief Ahmed Patel helped nip the riot and save the federal government.

The get together additionally misplaced Karnataka, the place it was in alliance with the JD-S, after each events noticed a lot of their legislators insurgent and be part of the BJP, which returned to energy.

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While the get together is in energy in Punjab and Puducherry, a part of the ruling dispensation in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, and the primary opposition get together in Assam, Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Kerala, the political house left by Congress in different states is both being taken over by regional events or the BJP is gaining a foothold in West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir.

Congress insiders say that the BJP is a round-the clock election machine and Congress cannot sit and watch as elections in West Bengal and Assam are just a few months away however Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah and Modi have already set their marketing campaign rolling forward.

The string of electoral defeats compelled 23 senior Congress leaders to write down a letter to get together’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi demanding reforms amid efforts to deliver again Rahul Gandhi to the get together helm, however as Sanjay Jha notes, Brand Rahul Gandhi has been destroyed by BJP systematically with a method.

Another get together chief agreed. “Now Rahul Gandhi has to walk the extra mile to reclaim his brand and also lead the party to victory in elections to boost the morale of the party but also have to be more communicative and accessible to achieve this target,” mentioned the chief who didn’t need to be named.

The Congress appears to be like on the Gandhis in each disaster – in 1998, it introduced Sonia Gandhi to the pinnacle the get together and although she did not dislodge then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999 however succeeded on her second try in 2004. Rahul Gandhi has failed in two successive elections — although he was not the get together chief in 2014.

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