New Delhi: At a time when some senior Congress leaders are demanding for intra-party polls and an ‘active president’, Salman Khurshid has asserted that there was no urgency to have an elected Congress president.
He said he ‘can’t see the heavens falling’ for the need of a party chief as Sonia Gandhi was still at the helm and should be the one to decide on the leadership issue.
The former Union Minister and senior leader that said he would not have signed the letter even if he was approached by the group that wrote to Sonia seeking urgent organisational overhaul, including an active and full-time leadership.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad had recently said the party must hold elections to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and key organisational posts of State chiefs lest it continues to “sit in the Opposition for the next 50 years”.
Azad said, “For the last many decades, we do not have elected bodies in the party. Maybe we should have pushed for it 10-15 yrs ago. Now we are losing elections after elections, and if we have to come back we need to strengthen our party by holding elections.”
If my party wants to be in opposition for the next 50 years, then there is no need for elections within the party, he added.