Will have to sit in the Opposition for another fifty years: Ghulam Nabi Azad

-If the party does not hold elections, it will be heavy

-Ghulam Nabi Azad told the Congress Movdi Mandal

New Delhi 28th August 2020 Friday

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad warned that if elections were not held in the Congress party, the party would have to sit in the opposition for the next 50 years. Even one per cent leaders and workers in the party do not want a president-elect.

In an interview, Ghulam Nabi Azad expressed his displeasure. He said that all the appointees, be it the Center or the states, should be decided by elections. The time for ruling by appointed or stumbled officials is over. Those who oppose the election fear that power will be snatched from our hands. Only those who come through elections will be able to handle the future. If there is no election in the party, the Congress will be forced to sit in the opposition for the next fifty years.

"You have to face two or three people when you fight an election," he said. The person who gets more than fifty percent of the votes becomes the winner. Others get ten fifteen twenty percent of the vote. When such an elected leader becomes the party president, he is accompanied by more than fifty per cent of the people in the party who have voted for him. The only advantage of an election is that the elected person has the confidence of more than fifty percent of the people. What is happening now is that the person who will become the president has not received the support or trust of a single person.

In addition, those who came second or third in the election should work harder to strengthen their position, work harder to strengthen the party. Elections help any party more. Here even the state presidents of the states are stumbled upon.