School students show the model question bank bearing a picture of Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa ahead
The Congress on Thursday disapproved of Union minister Jairam Ramesh’s lavish praise for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), viewing that such remarks can only come from an “apolitical worker”.
In a terse reaction to queries on Mr Ramesh’s views, AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said such remarks can only come from a person who is not a political worker and has got prominence in the party without undergoing the “rigour”, but added that he was not referring to any particular individual.
“It may be the opinion of some persons. They may be over-enthusiastic. But if you see minutely, only those persons have illusions who themselves are not political workers, who did not suffer that pain. They do not know what pain one undergoes in forming a political party and working a political activist.
“How much struggle one has to undergo before he gets an identity. Those whose identities are established all of a sudden can say anything because they have not felt that pain, not undergone that rigour,” he told reporters here when asked about Mr Ramesh’s remarks on the AAP on Wednesday.
“AAP is like ‘Dashavatar’. In different states it can have different avatars,” Mr Ramesh, who is a key Congress strategist close to party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, had said the other day.
Mr Dwivedi, however, felt that it is “not wise” to come to any final conclusion about the AAP, which had won only one state on corruption issue and was yet to deliver on its promises. “We are passing through such a time. It is not wise to give a conclusion on anything concerning AAP. Right now they are a group of few people. They have raised an issue and the party was formed and it got support and they formed the government in a state. The issue was corruption. This is an issue, which is like accepting that everyone should follow the right path, should not tell a lie, should not steal.
“Who can disagree with that?... People felt that while everybody says this, nobody does it. They have raised a question on it and in response, they have got the support. It is another thing to get support by raising an issue, by raking up sentiment... But some system is needed even to run an arrangement,” he said.
Maintaining that it requires both ideology and organisation to run a system, he said while he does not doubt the intentions of those joining the AAP, he feels that all that those who are talking of big sacrifice are now coming towards the politics of power.
“Who knows it may happen that the number of people who founded AAP
becomes less than those who are joining the party for loaves of power.
What will be that party’s future then?” That is why it will be hasty to say anything about them,” Mr Dwivedi said.