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Why are you resurrecting these characters from the past at a time when the Congress should be looking ahead

Well, they are very consequential personalities, they had a profound influence on the course of Indian history in the ’50s, vente coque iphone 6 ’60s, and because of Krishna Menon, going back to the ’30s. Also, Mr P N Haksar (former prime minister Indira Gandhi’s principal secretary) and Mr Krishna Menon, and certainly Indira Gandhi, left behind huge amounts of primary material, which are available in the archives and were waiting to be excavated, waiting to be written about. These are very important personalities, very colourful in their own right, very controversial. By no means are they inconsequential people and certainly not forgotten.

MANOJ C G: What can the present Congress learn from the past

One of the things that struck me was how the Congress parliamentary party would meet. (In one meeting) Mahavir Tyagi gets up in coque iphone 5c fila the meeting at Central Hall and tells Pandit Nehru on November 6, 1962, ‘Panditji agar ap ye istifa nahin sweekarte hain toh aapko hee jaana padega (If you don’t accept the resignation, you will have to go)’ In one of the selected works of Nehru there is a wonderful two page letter that Tyagi writes to him saying, ‘Panditji what are you doing Why are you making your daughter president of the Congress party’ Nehru sent him a two page reply. It was an extraordinary exchange It’s remarkable. The parliamentary party meetings were raucous affairs where people were shouting, people were raising all sorts of questions, people were disagreeing with Mr Nehru. It was not as coque huawei p10 vitre if he was having an easy path within the Congress party. Well, that’s one lesson certainly that the Congress party can learn.

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We have to revive the culture of internal debate. A difference of opinion does not mean you are against the person. Nehru had his critics, adversaries and opponents, but he did not have enemies. That’s what we have to learn both within the party as well as in the overall political environment, which has become very toxic.

MANOJ C G: Why have such frank discussions vanished now

It has literally vanished Last time the Congress party coque iphone 5 personnalisé avec plusieurs photos had a vigorous debate was when Manmohan Singh presented his budget. It was coque survivor huawei p10 coque iphone se lifeproof in July 1991. There was tremendous criticism. Narasimha Rao thought that the best way to defuse the situation was for the MPs to congregate in the Central Hall. Over 350 MPs gathered and everyone berated Manmohan Singh’s budget. There were only two people who supported it. One was Nathuram Mirdha, and you will be surprised to know that the second was Mani Shankar Aiyar. For three days, the Congress parliamentary party ripped the budget apart, the historic 1991 budget. At the end of three days, the budget was passed. The only change was that the fertiliser price hike was rolled back; that was the concession that Manmohan Singh had to make. That culture of debate has vanished in not just the Congress party but in all political personnalise ta coque iphone 6s parties.

MANOJ C G: Is it because of the overbearing presence of the family

Do you find anyone criticising Mr Modi in his party, or (Naveen) Patnaik in the BJD or anyone talking back to Sukhbir (Badal, president, Shiromani Akali Dal) If you raise some questions, motives are attributed. If I say something critical of the Congress, the immediate reaction will be that he is headed for the departure lounge, that he is going to join the BJP. Paradoxically, the only party in which personnaliser coque iphone 4s the culture of internal debate and discussion is alive is the CPI(M). They have this great culture which none of the mainstream parties do. There is no debate at all in the BSP. At least in the Congress party we have meetings, different points of view. We need to now go back to the internal debates that coque iphone 5c chanel vernis we had earlier.

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ABANTIKA GHOSH: Do you think the Congress is making enough noise about the economy or the Citizenship (Amendment) Act

The mantle of the Opposition seems to have been taken over by university students. Three years ago, coque iphone 6 pas cher livraison rapide Congress walked out when the CAB was coque iphone 6 griffin survivor introduced and debated in the Lok Sabha. But subsequently, our view was crystallised, there was a group formed by the Congress president, of which I was a member. We went to the Northeast and coque iphone 5 cheval firmed up our position after discussing the issue with our colleagues. It was a firm position. We spoke against the CAB in the Lok Sabha and voted against it; we didn’t walk out. That’s the important thing. We voted against the Bill in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. And we lost, the numbers were against us. Two days after the Bill was gazetted, I filed a petition in the Supreme Court. It’s going to be heard on January 22. These are the two things we could do within the confines of the Constitution.

I think the protests you are seeing, it would be wise for the Congress not to be seen to be orchestrating them. These are spontaneous expressions of anger, frustration, fear I think one should recognise that there is a space for spontaneous protests by ordinary citizens, students and political parties, but on an issue like the CAA there coque iphone selfie is a dangerous potential for it to be exploited by Mr Modi and Mr Amit Shah to convert a genuine issue into an issue of communal polarisation. You are already seeing this happen in different parts of the country, particularly in Uttar Pradesh. So, we need to be careful, (the reaction) is going to be nuanced.

Also, people are frustrated as things are not moving the way they were claimed to be coque iphone 5s paris moving. There is an economic link to it. There is a disenchantment with Mr Modi. As a historian, I always draw a parallel Indira Gandhi won a two thirds majority in 1971. But in 1973, things were beginning to unravel with the oil price hike, double digit inflation etc. It took two and a half years for things to unravel. In the case of Modi 2.0, it has begun to unravel in less than a year, in six seven months. I think, perhaps, we underestimated the degree of unravelling. Removal of Article 370, the CAA, the coque iphone 6s flamant rose NRC, on top of an economy that is literally moribundMeghnad Desai writes: Centre can enforce its word on CAA

LIZ MATHEW: But why is the Congress not in control of the narrative It only seems to be reacting to what the government is doing.

The BJP is the party in power, it controls the government’s agenda. In a way, it is inevitable for any political party, big or small, to be reacting to what the government in power is doing. Earlier, the people were reacting to what the Congress was doing during its long years in power, and now the people are reacting to what the BJP is doing.

But the (agenda) on the economy is certainly not being set by the government Congress has been very much at the forefront, not only here (in Delhi), not just in Parliament, but also in different states. So, I don’t see what gives you the idea that the Congress is sleeping on the economy. But certainly, the CAA, NRC, Article 370, these were not issues that the Congress brought up. The BJP brought up these issues, and so we have to react to it.

LIZ MATHEW: But we have how it was when the BJP in the Opposition BJP has been genetically programmed to be an opposition party, like the Congress was genetically programmed to be the party of governance. There is no doubt about it. Now, we have to learn to be in the opposition If you spoke to any Congress leader, they would say give me a draft. That comes after being a minister for years. So the spontaneity gets lost with being in government for long years. I am sure this coque huawei p10 lite tropical is going to happen with the BJP also, if they are going to be in power for a long period. That coque huawei p10 glitter is the nature of power.

VANDITA MISHRA: Is this the culture of entitlement the Congress has, even when they are not in power

Any party that remains in power for long will inevitably get a certain sense of entitlement. Any party. Do you think the BJP doesn’t have the culture of entitlement It is obvious, power tends to give you certain conveniences, which you have to make do without when you are not in power. (While out of power) you tend to think more on your feet. You end up being a little more spontaneous. I am beginning to see this (entitlement) in many of my friends in the BJP in their second term.

AAKASH JOSHI: The Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat spoke about the anti CAA protests. What is your view on his remarks

think there’s a Lakshman coque iphone 6 tpu rekha there. coque iphone 6 kenzo aliexpress Just as politicians should be careful about weighing in on matters of military strategy this is the great lesson of the 1962 war, that military decisions are military decisions issues that are political in nature, which go beyond the confines of military matters, are best left to politicians. I don’t think Generals should wade into this. But General Rawat, I am sorry to say, has on more than one occasion expressed his views, which I am sure everybody is entitled to in private, but he has spoken out in public. It gives the impression that the line between what is clearly military and what is political is getting blurred. I hope that doesn’t happen. I think Chidambaram said it best he’s wading into issues which are not his core competence.

HARISH DAMODARAN: But coque iphone 4s bumper it is also true that coque iphone 7 pokemon P Chidambaram was a hawk when it came to issues such as the National Population Register coque housse huawei p10 (NPR) He was very clear that one needs citizenship, that everybody coque huawei p10 lite hibou has to be identified.

The NPR was never envisaged as an instrument for determining citizenship. The coque iphone 5s etui NPR was envisaged by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, who was reporting to Mr Chidambaram, as an alternative instrument for determining identity When were your parents born Who are your parents What are these (new) questions meant for Determining citizenship. And, what was the NPR earlier The NPR was, have you been living in this place for six months, and will you be living here six months later. That was the only purpose of the NPR. Mr Amit Shah’s NPR bears no resemblance to Mr Chidambaram’s NPR.

MANOJ C G: Both Mamata Banerjee and Pinarayi Vijayan have said that they won’t allow NPR in their states. Why aren’t Congress governments stopping the exercise..