Rebuking the BJP for its comment on the record fourth consecutive term to party president Sonia Gandhi, the Congress on Thursday said, its constitution permits anyone to get elected to the post of AICC chief as many time as possible.
If Mrs Gandhi gets support of the party, she could be AICC chief 40 times and no one should have any objection, the party emphasised.
Rejecting the suggestion made by the BJP to offer the top post in the Congress to someone outside Nehru-Gandhi family, AICC media department chairman Janardhan Dwivedi said, “We do not discuss the constitution of another party... Why four times she (Gandhi) could be the party president 40 times if the party wants.”
Reminding the principal Opposition of the Congress history, Mr Dwivedi said, “This democracy has seen that Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister for 17 long years and almost about same period of time Indira Gandhi was AICC chief. In between others too got chance, but the same democracy thrown them out.”
Mr Dwivedi, who was visibly irked by the BJP’s suggestion, reasoned that since the Congress was a democratic party, this (organisational election) is being discussed.
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CPM: UPA obsessed with N-bill
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
The CPI(M) has said that the recently-concluded Monsoon Session of Parliament was marked by the “singular obsession” of the UPA-II government to have the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill passed in both the Houses. In a latest editorial in the party mouthpiece People’s Democracy, the CPI(M) has said that the move of the UPA government was made ‘’clearly in order to present to the US president Barak Obama a domestic Indian legislation that favours nuclear commerce facilitating profits to US corporations that are now supply nuclear reactors to India.” “The intent of the nuclear deal, apart from cementing India’s strategic ties with US imperialism, is now materialised by facilitating profits to US corporations,” it said.