No leader is willing to publicly comment on this.
AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh
Hyderabad: The frequent summoning of state leaders to Delhi by AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh to review the party position in the state is not going down well with the Telangana Congress leaders, especially in the last two days. Though no leader is willing to publicly comment on this, privately, the leaders say that the AICC appears not to have learnt any lesson from the bitter experiences of the past few months, and is continuing its authoritarian attitude by summoning the leaders to Delhi.
“Digvijay Singh, being the in-charge general secretary should have visited the state and taken up review meetings with party workers and leaders. This would have helped him understand better why the party is not gaining in the state and why its leaders are deserting it for the TRS. Without proper introspection on a party forum, why is he summoning leaders to Delhi and taking review meetings each time the party suffers a poll defeat,” a senior Congress leader said.
Another leader from Medak district said, “Everybody is assuming that the TRS has managed Congress MLC candidate Shivraj Patil to withdraw his nomination to make the election unanimous. However, we came to know that two important Congress leaders, who enjoyed power in the past, had colluded with TRS leaders and took money to get him to withdraw his nomination.”
The forthcoming GHMC polls will be very crucial for the party since the civic body covers three districts. “When this is the case, the AICC leaders, instead of coming here and taking up reviews, have started relying on whatever one or two leaders tell them. This will go against party interests,” the second-rung leaders feel. “There was no review on why the Congress candidate lost his deposit in the Warangal bypoll. Similarly, there was no review why party candidates in MLC polls withdrew in favour of the TRS. Of course, there is no preventive mechanism in place, even after legislators and important leaders have left the party,” another leader said.
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