March 12, 2021
At an India Today media conclave in early 2018, Sonia Gandhi made a rather candid confession: the BJP, she said, had managed to convince many people that the Congress is a ‘Muslim party’. The Congress president’s remarks, in a sense, were a tacit admission that Nehruvian secularism had failed to combat the rising tide of political Hindutva. Her words were also echoing the party’s Antony committee report, drafted in the aftermath of the 2014 election debacle but never made public, that the Congress was seen as ‘pro-Muslim’ and ‘anti-Hindu’. Three years later, as we enter another election season, the Congress’s predicament is even more stark: the party’s secular identity is once again being questioned as it is accused of openly aligning with ‘Muslim’ parties.
Congress fighting Assam polls without a CM face
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AICC general secretary in-charge of Assam Jitendra Singh said the Congress will fight the assembly under collective leadership. He has been maintaining that “any Congress worker can be chief minister”.
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After almost two decades, the Congress-led Grand Alliance is fighting the assembly polls without a chief ministerial face in Assam. This is unlike the previous assembly elections when the Congress had fought under leadership of the late Tarun Gogoi since 2001.
Gogoi had led the party in all the assembly elections for the past 20 years. Gogoi was chief minister from 2001-2015, till the Congress was defeated by the BJP-led alliance in 2016.
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Sonowal said that during Congress regime in the state, Assam had seen a lot of conflicts and fights among different linguistic and religious groups and the people of the state had elected the BJP-led government in 2016 to end the reign of terror, corrupt practices and to strengthen the bond of unity among all sections of the society.
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