Congress should not have been in govt after 2009 polls: Janardan Dwivedi

Dwivedi regretted “perhaps no major political party now has the patience as well as the self-confidence to discharge the role of an Opposition readily, face challenges, struggle for people's cause and then come back with a new shine and mandate to form a government”.

He lamented that instead of developing “natural leadership”, emphasis was being laid on promoting “technical leadership”.

Citing the rise of regional party leaders in the past two-three decades, he insisted “they were not educated abroad or spoke fluent English. They were not even experts of new technology but still they got the support of people.

“Their only limitation was that they lacked a national perspective. But they did have the power to damage the major parties having the national outlook”.

Maintaining that both the nation as well as Congress followed a “middle path” and it will remain so, Dwivedi said, “how much ever you try to deflect it from that path, it has not succeeded and it will not succeed.
 
“It is better that both India and Congress function in tandem. Congress will not remain Congress if it does not tread the middle path. It has represented India for last 128 years because of this virtue which is all inclusive.”