Performance must replace parikrama: Ramesh

Noting that Gandhi has a gameplan for the party, vision for the party, Ramesh said that the Congress Vice President wants to change the candidate selection process.

“Primaries are beginning of the process of empowering the party worker.” On his “retire at 70” view, Ramesh said that what he is pitching for was to bring more youngsters into the party from diverse background.

“In politics, at all levels we must bring new people from new backgrounds. It should not be a monopoly of the few. We should constantly renew the organisation”, he said. 

Citing his own example, Ramesh, who has been a close associate of the Congress Vice President, suggested that he was not an exception.

“In one week, I am going to be sixty. Age wise, I can also be old. He (Rahul) can draw upon my experience, but his foot soldiers have to be youngsters, new people coming from all backgrounds., across all backgrounds.”