After impressive efficiency, Congress has its task cut out

By successful 18 out of the 25 seats it had contested within the Assembly election, a 72% conversion price, the Congress has ended up because the occasion with the very best strike price. The strike price of its senior companion DMK was 70.75%.

The Congress can really feel inspired from this victory because it was blamed for a poor strike price up to now elections, however the highway forward is lengthy. There is a sense in sections of the occasion that it can not stay a junior companion endlessly, when even the BJP is aggressively pushing for enlargement in Tamil Nadu.

In 2006, when the Congress received 34 out of 48 seats, it didn’t capitalise on its efficiency to assist develop the organisation. For all of the discuss of ‘bringing back Kamaraj rule’ in Tamil Nadu, the factionalism and infighting has dented its prospects through the years.

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.S. Alagiri has managed to quell factionalism to an extent. Even when a couple of leaders protested towards the nomination of some candidates, they had been shortly requested to fall in line by Mr. Alagiri and senior leaders, together with AICC in-charge of Tamil Nadu Dinesh Gundu Rao, who realised the enormity of the task at hand.

The agreements with the DMK for the previous elections and its personal efficiency deficit have meant that the Congress is unable to hunt a share in energy within the State. Even in 2006, when it received 34 seats and the DMK 96 seats, the Congress sat out of the federal government. The late AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa used to taunt it as a “minority DMK government”.

The 2021 Assembly election outcomes current a chance to the nationwide occasion, which is preventing for relevance in lots of States, to strengthen its base, construct its cadre and determine younger and proficient staff to allow it to have both a stronger bargaining energy or the power to struggle elections alone, however its alliance with the DMK on the nationwide degree.

“The people of Tamil Nadu have a liking for the Congress, and among all the national parties, the Congress is the most liked here. We have to build our grassroots, identify good leaders. These results have helped us take forward the task of building our party at the ground level. But we have to fight the fascist force. That is our main priority,” Mr. Dinesh Gundu Rao instructed The Puucho.

Another senior chief stated that whereas this victory was vital for the Congress, it will not do something to upset the alliance, pointing out that the occasion must work onerous to develop its base within the State.

The reality stays that the Congress’s dream of bringing again the Kamaraj rule can not come true until the occasion is able to contest in all 234 seats within the State on its personal (it had contested in all 39 constituencies alone within the 2014 Lok Sabha election) or lead an alliance in Assembly elections, a prospect that appears distant in the intervening time.