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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 8
Karan Singh, veteran Congress leader from Jammu and Kashmir, today said he was “aghast” over the disorientation in the party since the resignation of Rahul Gandhi and urged Congress Working Committee be called without delay with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in chair to take necessary decisions.
“I am aghast to see the confusion and disorientation into which the party has fallen since Gandhi resigned on May 25. Instead of honouring his bold decision, a month has been wasted pleading him to take back his resignation,” Singh said in a statement on the current state of affairs in the party he joined five decades ago.
Among the measures he suggested included appointing an interim Congress president until the next party elections and four working presidents/vice-presidents, one each for the four regions — East, West, North and South.
“This would enable the introduction of younger people into positions of authority. The longer the present uncertainty remains, the more will our workers and voters around the country be demoralised. The negative cycle must be reversed before it is too late,” he said.
Singh’s remarks come in the backdrop of the crisis the party is in after Gandhi said he would not remain the party president and made the decision public last week. Since then, several Congress leaders have been announcing resignations.
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