With municipal elections round the corner in the national Capital, Delhi Congress seems to be struggling with internal disputes as more than 50 senior leaders have left the party within the span of the last six months. While scores of senior party leaders including party’s vice-presidents are not happy alleging ‘ignorance’ from party Delhi unit president Anil Kumar while framing the party’s strategy.
A senior party leader said that many such leaders are not even invited in any decision making process and the ignorance is certainly going to have a huge impact on upcoming municipal elections.
At the time when the ruling BJP is facing wrath of the people after it failed to deliver in the last 15 years, the Congress has an opportunity to gain the ground but the internal disputes will harm the possibility of success to great extent.
Recently, in a meeting held at Pradesh Congress Committee, it was decided that party’s senior leaders including four terms MLA and former secretary in AICC for 10 years Jaikishan, Shivani Chopra, Ali Mehndi, Mudit Agarwal and Abhishek dutt was given authority of some of the departments but still all the affairs are decided by party president alone, he said.
This was the reason, he said “Party’s ‘Pol Khol Yatra’ failed to garner support of the public as the campaign was not supported and coordinated by leaders at district level. The attempts to reach out to the people were scattered due to lack of coordination among the party leaders.
The Congress has divided into a fraction and it will cost the party’s chances of winning seats in municipal elections,” a senior party functionary said. According to sources in the party even one of the vice- presidents has written to the top leadership expressing displeasure over the functioning of the party in the leadership of party Delhi unit president Anil Kumar.
Five-time municipal councillor and senior Congress leader Mukesh Goel joined the AAP along with about a dozen office-bearers of the Congress, including two-time former councillor Parma Bhai Solanki. Party sitting councilor and Karawal Nagar Mahila district president Amarlata Sangwan also left the party to join the BJP.
The BJP had emerged as the clear winner in the last Municipal Corporation elections winning 184 seats. The AAP came a distant second with just 46 seats in all the three Delhi municipal corporations, while the Congress could just manage to win 30 seats and others got 10 seats.