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Brar blasts Cong coterie for poll drubbing Chandigarh, August 2 “The questions I have raised are for the collective good of the party. The Congress cannot regain its glorious past and strength until it identifies and addresses the problems being faced by it,” said Brar while talking to The Tribune over phone from Delhi. Brar, whose remarks created a flutter yesterday, asserted that he never asked for the removal of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi. “I never said that they should be told to proceed on leave for two years,” he said. “I said Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should go to various states and interact with party activists to know the reasons behind Congress’ humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections,” said Brar. Brar said the Congress kept on committing blunders one after another as the inner circle of advisers kept Sonia and Rahul in the dark and never gave them an accurate feedback. “The first blunder of the party was not to make Pranab Mukherjee the Prime Minister after Manmohan Singh completed his first term in 2009,’ he said. “Manmohan Singh is an excellent man known for his honesty, but he is not a politician. The Congress needed someone like Pranab Mukherjee to tackle political forces against the party,” claimed
Brar. “In a run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, many party spokespersons made remarks that caused irreparable damage to the party. But sadly, no one take note of such blunders at the higher-level, “ said Brar. “As a party spokesman, Digvijay Singh created such an imbalance through his statements that it annoyed certain sections of the society to the extent that they swayed away from the Congress”, claimed Brar. Not sacking certain ministers suspected to be involved in scams during the UPA-II was another big bloomer, said Brar. This time, too, the party has made a mistake by not making Kamal Nath, nine-time MP from Madhya Pradesh, leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha, said Brar. ”What message the Congress has given by not making him the leader”? asked Brar. “This coterie of advisers needs to be shown the door immediately. To establish their control, these leaders first finished the regional leaders of the party in various states in a planned and calculated manner,” said Brar. “They (advisers) didn’t allow the party leadership to provide adequate space to young, talented and promising leaders to politically flourish and strengthen the party in their own states. “With much fanfare, the party gave tickets to several youngsters and they won in 2009. But the coterie did not provide them space to work and strengthen the party in their states”, Brar said. These advisers reduced the interaction of party activists with the top leaders to almost zero and made the Congress a non- democratic entity, he said. Brar said both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were the central force of the party but without regional leaders the party won’t be able to counter the BJP that has a well-groomed cadre. “The Congress should function as team”, he added. The Punjab leader said should not be compared to Natwar Singh, who, he said, had betrayed the trust of Nehru-Gandhi family to sell a book.
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