Daddy’s boy Karti Chidambaram will get roasted by his Tamil Nadu Congress mates for passing unsavoury feedback
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Ahead of the meeting elections in Tamil Nadu in April-May this yr, the Congress celebration’s state unit noticed a number of appointments by the interim celebration chief, Sonia Gandhi. In totality, 32 vice-presidents, 57 common secretaries, 104 secretaries, 56 government committee members, 32 ex-officio members, and 200 odd different members had been appointed to the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC). In the aftermath of such appointments, one would have anticipated the TNCC to undertaking itself as one massive glad household. However, the state unit of the celebration has been uncovered to be a very divided home. Karti Chidambaram, son of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and an MP himself from Sivaganga constituency took to Twitter to garbage such grand appointments made by the Congress President, saying, “These jumbo committees serve no purpose…None will have any authority which means no accountability.” Karti even tagged the official Twitter handles of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, aside from these of KC Venugopal and the celebration’s Tamil Nadu unit. For this tweet, the son of P Chidambaram was humiliatingly roasted by Ok Mahendran, who was on Saturday appointed Tamil Nadu celebration common secretary.These jumbo committees serve no goal. None may have any authority which suggests no accountability. @INCIndia @INCTamilNadu @kcvenugopalmp @dineshgrao @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi https://t.co/C8p4nIwNSX— Karti P Chidambaram (@KartiPC) January 2, 2021@kcvenugopalmp @dineshgrao @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi @INCIndia— Mahendran.. விவசாயி.. விசுவாசி (@iycmahe) January 2, 2021 Many hard-working Youth Congress, NSUI, Mahila Congress, and scheduled caste division functionaries have made it into the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, Mahendran stated in his tweet. “Some (who) became MP because of their father can’t understand,” he added, quoting Karti Chidambaram’s tweet. It is probably for the primary time {that a} Congress chief has taken on his colleague with such vigour, and cited his nepotistic existence throughout the celebration as a purpose for Karti failing to know the importance of such appointments. Karti Chidambaram’s solely declare to fame is that he’s P Chidambaram’s son, and Ok Mahendran grabbed the previous by the jugular when he stated that junior Chidambaram had change into an MP solely as a consequence of his father. Interestingly, in his reply to Karti Chidambaram, Mahendran additionally tagged Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. It wouldn’t be an overstatement by far to say that the newly appointed Tamil Nadu Congress General Secretary appears to have taken potshots on the Gandhi household as nicely, as a result of each Priyanka and Rahul don’t have anything a lot to account for besides for his or her surnames, handed on to them by their father – Rajiv Gandhi. Karti Chidambaram has been following his father’s lead, as the previous Finance Minister had given his all-out assist to the 23 dissenting celebration leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi calling for reforms throughout the Congress final yr. P Chidambaram had himself backed requires elections at each degree and in addition demanded the reconstitution of the Congress Parliamentary Board. Evidently now, because the elections of Tamil Nadu’s state meeting strategy, the Congress’ state unit is being uncovered as a divided home, the place there appears to be a common sense of hatred in the direction of the nepotism and affect of the Chidambarams.
