When a “conductor” is habituated to distributing tickets, it is not surprising that the GPCC president said that the Goa Congress will announce all its Assembly candidates two months before the elections But the Congress is not a bus. And isn’t elections all about people?
Where are the people in this process?
The still continuing GPCC president Girish Chodankar’s grand announcement that the Congress will announce all its candidates through the block, district, pradesh and finally by the High Command, two months before elections, is exactly the anti-people process that one is highlighting. To choose a local candidate who will handle local issues and be a lawmaker for your local constituency consisting of a few village panchayats; the Congress wants the High Command with hardly any grassroots connect to make a final call. And we all know that recommendations of blocks and districts are only on paper.
The people should ask this to the GPPCC president: Will candidates be chosen via these grand princely announcements or will the real voices of the people be heard? And what is the mechanism for it? Currently, the only mechanism seems to be promising five people that the ticket would be given and one is picked for it. People are joining the party at regular intervals, most with promises of tickets and creating four rebels. Where is the people’s involvement here?
No party is anyone’s father’s property. In a democracy, parties belong to the people. Do people have any voice in Congress?
GPCC president announces Cong will form a government after the Assembly polls? Where are its people chosen, candidates?
With five MLAs out of which a couple of them may cross to the BJP, and a third who may not contest, where are the candidates? Can government formation happen without even a visible team of candidates (not including those who have suddenly joined for tickets only)?
Look at this statement of the GPCC president on Sunday on the sidelines of an induction meeting of a new entrant to the party, “The Congress will form a government after the next elections. That is why they have chosen a very senior and experienced leader like P Chidambaram.”
The irony of this is amusing and one should actually ask. If the party is sure to win the elections, why would they engage a very senior elderly man and give him the responsibility of travelling to Goa and tour towns and villages? Mr Chidambaram is forced to be an election observer for the Goa Congress because of the utter mess that the current leadership has created, where the party has gone totally out of control.
Chidambaram has been brought in to see if oxygen can be given to the politically pandemic party
It’s a matter of shame and not pride that the party had to handpick Chidambaram to revive the party six months or less, before the elections. Why wasn’t the party revived from the grassroots these four years?
The high command culture still rules. And till that does, there is, and will be, no link between the party and the people. People are the REAL high command, not leaders sitting in Delhi.
Does the Cong think that its ‘High’ Command is higher than the People’s command?
