The biggest problem within the Congress party is too much democracy. Anybody can speak against anybody, even it is party president at the state level or the AICC president, and can get away with it. Action is taken only after a leader quits the party.
This is what is happening in Telangana Congress party. Several leaders have quit the party after making wild allegations against the party presidents, but the leadership does not take any steps to prevent the others from going in the same line.
Of late, there have been reports that Nalgonda senior leaders Gutha Sukhender Reddy, MP and Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, MLA, are getting ready to leave the party.
Yet, the Congress leadership has not taken any steps to appease them and make them stay in the party.
And when Komatireddy made a scathing attack on PCC chief Uttam Kumar Reddy, then leaders have started reacting. On Sunday, PCC vice-president Shabbir Ali appealed to the Telangana Congress leaders to restrain from criticising each other in public.
Shabbir said that Congress was a totally democratic party and each and every leader and worker has a right to express his/her views. However, no one is authorised to speak against others in public forums or through media.
He said if any leader has an issue with the leadership, then they must raise those issues in party forums than going before the media with their list of allegations.
“Despite Congress president Sonia Gandhi Ji giving statehood for Telangana, the Congress party has failed to win the last elections largely due to in-fighting. Instead of deteriorating the situation further, all Telangana Congress leaders should adopt "forget and forgive" policy and work unitedly to bring Congress party back into power in 2019 elections," he said.
