First Tharoor, now Chidambaram: Senior leaders put Congress on backfoot | India News

NEW DELHI: The Congress is as soon as once more below BJP hearth. And as soon as once more, the ammunition for this all-out assault has been offered by a celebration chief. P Chidambaram‘s actuality verify on the way forward for INDIA bloc has left the Congress scurrying for canopy. “The future (of the INDIA bloc) is not so bright. It shows at the seams that it is frayed … ” Chidambaram mentioned at a guide launch within the nationwide capital on Thursday.The BJP, as anticipated, latched on to Chidambaram’s remarks and unleashed a fierce offensive in opposition to the Congress. And why not? After all, the management of opposition’s INDIA bloc is with the grand-old-party and Mallikarjun Kharge is its chairperson. So, Chidambaram’s evaluation factors to failure of the Congress management to guide the opposition coalition successfully. Also Read: ‘New regular’ for Congress? Shashi Tharoor’s reward for PM Modi’s insurance policiesIronically, his remarks come at a time when the Congress was already struggling over statements made by Shashi Tharoor in help of PM Modi’s insurance policies in the course of the India-Pakistan standoff. Several BJP leaders cited Tharoor’s remarks praising a number of authorities’s insurance policies, together with the ceasefire resolution, to slam and college the Congress management.It was solely yesterday that Congress chief Jairam Ramesh formally introduced that Tharoor’s remarks had been his private views. “When Mr. Tharoor speaks, it is his view and it is not the stand of the party,” Jairam Ramesh had mentioned yesterday. Some stories citing Congress sources had instructed that the social gathering had expressed displeasure with Tharoor’s statements and was of the view that the Thiruvananthapuram MP had crossed the Lakshman Rekha this time round. However, Tharoor had dismissed these stories and known as them “media creation without any evidence.”Chidambaram’s assertion coming on this backdrop put the social gathering as soon as once more on the backfoot.Citing Chidambaram’s actuality verify, the BJP and its allies have been relentless in focusing on the Congress and the INDIA bloc calling it a “greed-driven coalition”, “Maha-thagbandhan”, “opportunistic alliance”, “kushti-dosti model”, “company of looters”, “group of corrupt leaders”, “ghamandiya alliance”. Some even raised questions on Congress’s management position and claimed that the grand-old-party is fading and has no future.INDIA bloc, which was launched with lots of fanfare, is definitely gasping for breath right this moment and to that extent Chidambaram is spot on in his evaluation. But to announce that from a public platform definetely helps social gathering’s political rivals – the BJP on this case.It shall be fascinating to see how the Congress reacts to this new problem. Party chief Udit Raj, who had slammed Tharoor for ‘turning into BJP’s spokesperson’, had a phrase of recommendation for Chidambaram. “Party has given him a lot. He and his son are MPs. Since the party is not in power, Chidambaram ji should go around the country and conduct a dialogue,” he mentioned.Tharoor has been at loggerheads with the social gathering for a while now, however Chidambaram’s remarks might have come as a shock. Interestingly, final week when BJP nationwide normal secretary Radha Mohan Das Agrawal had slammed the Congress over demand to sack Madhya Pradesh minister Vijay Shah for his controversial assertion on Col Sofia Qureshi, he had cited each Tharoor and Chidambaram to show his level.“If people start giving resignation for statements, then no one would be left in the Congress except for P Chidambaram and Shashi Tharoor. We should first demand Rahul Gandhi’s resignation,” the BJP normal secretary had mentioned. The incontrovertible fact that each these leaders have put Congress in a spot of trouble could also be a matter of coincidence. Perhaps.