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G-23 Is Not A 1969 Syndicate For Congress And Neither Is Rahul, Indira Gandhi
They suggest that it is they who are responsible for Congress's tight hand. He believes that the time has come to free the party from these old guards and form a new, more youthful Congress.
Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself King of France in 1851. His ideal was the former king Napoleon. Commenting on this, Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself, first in the form of tragedy and second in the form of a comedy filled with drama. Congress has proved Marx wrong. They are repeating their history but in the form of a comedy filled with tragedy part. If you listen to what Rahul supporters are saying on social media after the resignation of Ghulam Nabi Azad, you will find that they are talking about expelling the Old Guards. They suggest that it is they who are responsible for Congress's tight hand. He believes that the time has come to free the party from these old guards and form a new, more youthful Congress.
Is the G-23 faction the new syndicate of Congress?
Whatever is happening in Congress today, there is nothing new in it. This is the same kind of development when Congress was divided into two parts in the seventies. The name of Morarji Desai, who was the candidate for the post of Prime Minister against Shastri, was at the forefront. But, at that time senior leaders of the party put forward the name of Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi and the tradition of giving importance to the Nehru family started. In 1968/69 a group of old Congress leaders started looking for ways to remove Indira Gandhi from the post of Prime Minister. During the presidential election in November 1969, the differences between the senior leader and Indira Gandhi came to the fore. The leadership of the Congress which was then known as the Syndicate had expelled Indira from the party despite her being the PM. This should have ended his career and forced him to resign as Prime Minister. But Indira was smarter than the syndicate leaders. He refused to resign and split Congress itself in two. Since she was able to take only a fraction of the Congress Parliamentary Party with her. That is why Indira Congress got away from the majority in the Lok Sabha as well. But he was saved by the support of allies such as the Communists. An early mid-term election was later held. The Syndicate took over the Congress organization. This faction of the Congress was called the Congress (O) and it formed alliances with other parties (Swatantrata, Jana Sangh, etc.). But Indira won a massive victory and the syndicate's influence and politics ended forever. After that, such a phase was seen in Congress as it became the personal property of the Gandhi family. This is the episode that Rahul Gandhi's supporters cite, some intentionally, some unintentionally. In his eyes, G-23 is the new syndicate. Old Congress leaders like Ghulam Nabi, Anand Sharma, and others are representing it. Like his grandmother, Rahul will form a new Congress with new leaders.
