“No compromise with communal forces at any cost,” said UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi while addressing party’s workers convention in Kanpur on Monday. While the leader of young brigade Rahul Gandhi called party workers to fight against unemployment and underdevelopment.
Sonia Gandhi while praising the party workers for its committed work for the upliftment of the Party however said, “no one is above the party.”
The background for the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who addressed the UPCC state convention in Kanpur on Monday was already set at the two-day party meeting when unanimous verbal assault on Mayawati was carried out with some space was left to Samajwadi Party for a possible future electoral understanding between the two.
Realising its weak political position in the state, the two-day special Congress convention in order to reviving its old glory of rules for nearly four decades, the state committee has set the agenda for next year's general elections and planned strategy to meet the desired goal.
The Uttar Pradesh State Congress Committee convention has been met after a long gap of 26 years. Congress Young Turk Rahul Gandhi, an MP from Amethi, UP, also addressed the public rally along with his mother Sonia Gandhi. He said party workers should do more work to eradicate unemployment and should work towards bringing development.
It was amply clear at the Party’s convention on Sunday that Congress was in no mood to continue harmonious relationship with the BSP when it charged Mayawati for all around corruption and mal-administration and infringement of law and order situation in the state.
The state Congress resolution also dubbed Mayawati, a weak and incapable administrator for being her failed in providing a clean and transparent government and charged her for the failure of the Centre’s mid-day meal scheme, which was caught in corruption.
It was not only BSP, which remained at the centre stage of the party’s onslaught, but the State Congress Committee also BJP for its ‘casteist and communal approach’ and SP for its ‘goondaraj’ which brought the state to decline during past 19 years. At the same time party functionary Digvijay Singh appreciated Mulayam Singh for its committed combating against communal forces. He said the Congress could consider over the alliance proposal if it comes from the party, which is secular in nature and has been fighting against communal forces.
The State Congress resolution accused Mayawati and her BSP government of being neck-deep in corruption by referring to the Rs 174 crore Taj heritage corridor scam and disproportionate case against her and large scale transfer of senior officials.
Even it said the Dalit community were being attacked in many parts of the state during the rule of leader of its own community. Law and order situation is completely at verge of corruption with even members of the SC/ST are forced to pay bribe for getting jobs, said the resolution.
Congress is now in the way to make ground in dalit vote banks, as it has been apparent in few weeks with Rahul Gandhi’s, the youth commentator of the party, spiralling love for the Dalits, which has even irked the BSP supreme Mayawati.
The Congress-SP alliance, if forms, has been viewing as a twin benefiting for the both parties. BSP’s unique social engineering formula has sent both the parties at bay in the state. Both realises that singularly they cannot compete with BSP, which has made its strong hold owing to its Dalit-upper castes combinations. Whereas the alliance with the SP for general elections would help the Congress to back again in the state, for Mulayam Singh it can be used as a shield against the ruling party’s mounting assault on his party in the state. Besides the alliance with the Congress could assist him with avoidance of central investigations, which are probing cases against its prominent leaders.
Secondly the Congress-SP alliance could also infringe the possible UNPA alliance with the Left parties, which are determined to make third political alternative to the Congress and BJP.
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