Digvijaya’s Pipe Dream

The latest is his appeal to Mamata Banerjee of the AITMC and Sharad Pawar of the NCP to return to the party fold

CoONGRESS General Secretary
Digvijaya Singh has a knack for
bluster. The latest is his appeal to
Mamata Banerjee of the AITMC and
Sharad Pawar of the NCP to return to
the party fold. After inviting flak for
comparing Rahul Gandhi’s failure to
energise his party workers with the
electoral reverses suffered by the
onetime US president Abraham
Lincoln, the former Madhya Pradesh
CM has now called for a larger alliance
of all Congress-minded parties.

In an interview with The Economic Times, he
said, “I strongly appeal to all leaders
and workers who have left Congress in
the past, be it Sharad Pawarji or
Mamata Banerjee, to come back.”
Singh, the ultimate dynasty loyalist,
knows well that these powerful
leaders had quit the Congress
expressing deep displeasure over the
way power was centralised by the
Family. Isn’t it blasphemous, then, to
dole out such invitations, Mr Singh? Is
Rahul Gandhi listening?

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