Congress facing 'existential crisis': Jairam
BY M Post Bureau7 Aug 2017 6:44 PM GMT
M Post Bureau7 Aug 2017 6:44 PM GMT
The Congress is facing an "existential crisis", senior party leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday said and pitched for "a collective effort" by party leaders to "overcome" the challenges it faced from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.
Ramesh also said that business as usual approach will not work against Modi and Shah and advocated for a flexibility in approach to make Congress relevant.
"Yes, the Congress party is facing a very serious crisis," Ramesh said on Monday.
He said the Congress had faced "electoral crisis" from 1996 to 2004 when it was out of power. The party had also faced "electoral crisis" in 1977 when it lost the elections held soon after the emergency.
"But today, I would say that the Congress is facing an existential crisis. It is not an electoral crisis. The party really is in deep crisis," he said when asked whether the threat of "poaching" of MLAs posed by the BJP in Gujarat had forced the party to transport its MLAs to Karnataka to ensure party leader Ahmed Patel's victory in the Rajya Sabha polls.
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