Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the key dissenters in the party, has broken his silence on the Bihar assembly elections and by-elections debacle. Azad didn't blame the party leadership for the defeat but said we have lost touch with the people at the grassroots.
'Unless we change the working style of the Congress at every level, things will not change. The leadership should give a program to the party workers and conduct elections for the posts, Azad said. Earlier, P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal have come out openly about the defeat in the Bihar elections.
Azad said that he cannot blame the Gandhi family, because at the moment nothing much can be done due to the corona epidemic. They have accepted most of our demands.
The Congress leadership should hold elections if they want to revive the party as the current organisational "system has collapsed".
Azad, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, said that the party should abandon the "5-star culture". 'Today when a leader gets a ticket, he books a 5-star hotel first. He does not go there where the road is untarred,' he remarked. 'The election cannot be won until the Five Star culture is abandoned.'
The senior Congress leader said that till the time people keep getting appointed at posts, they will not understand their responsibilities. But if all the office bearers of the party are elected then they will feel the responsibility. 'Today, anyone in the party can achieve any position,' he added.
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