A day after he called for an end to "dynasty politics", the Goa Congress unit has removed the party's official spokesperson Durgadas Kamat from his post. Following the electoral results in Haryana and Maharashtra, where the Congress faced a humiliating defeat, Kamat in his Facebook post had called for introspection and an end to dynasty rule both in Delhi and in Goa. He said: "End should be put to dynasty politics... Young people who perform and do not have political godfathers should be brought forward in the best interest of Indian politics." Kamat is the fourth person to be sacked from the Congress for criticising dynastic rule.
Before that, Ghufran Azam of the Madhya Pradesh unit had said Sonia and Rahul Gandhi should have taken responsibility for the party's debacle. He wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi in which he said: "Your love for your son has destroyed the Congress. I have been telling you this for 10 years now. You have not been able to teach him the basics of politics. He has destroyed the Youth Congress... Whatever responsibility you give him he will destroy that..." He was sacked too.
T H Mustafa, a Congress leader from Kerala, was suspended from the party for calling Rahul Gandhi a "joker" who should be sacked from his post if he did not own up responsibility for the election debacle.
Jagmeet Singh Brar, a former MP from Punjab, had asked the party's leadership to go on a sabbatical in the wake of the Lok Sabha debacle. He also said that all general secretaries should have resigned by now and the party mantle should have been handed over to a new set of leaders. Brar is suspended from the party.
Before that, Ghufran Azam of the Madhya Pradesh unit had said Sonia and Rahul Gandhi should have taken responsibility for the party's debacle. He wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi in which he said: "Your love for your son has destroyed the Congress. I have been telling you this for 10 years now. You have not been able to teach him the basics of politics. He has destroyed the Youth Congress... Whatever responsibility you give him he will destroy that..." He was sacked too.
T H Mustafa, a Congress leader from Kerala, was suspended from the party for calling Rahul Gandhi a "joker" who should be sacked from his post if he did not own up responsibility for the election debacle.
Jagmeet Singh Brar, a former MP from Punjab, had asked the party's leadership to go on a sabbatical in the wake of the Lok Sabha debacle. He also said that all general secretaries should have resigned by now and the party mantle should have been handed over to a new set of leaders. Brar is suspended from the party.