Performance must replace parikrama: Ramesh

He said,”You must know when to exit. Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev left when they were at the peak. So was the case with Vijay Merchant.”

“This is not true only in politics. It applies to business, films, academics, media, industry and science too.  In India, people should know when to go”.  

At the same time, he said that this cannot be applicable in each case.

N R Narayana Murthy of the Infosys, who had left at 65, came back at the helm after sometime and even brought his son back because “sometimes circumstances may change”. 

Replying to a question, he dismissed suggestions that the Congress was fighting the elections to be an ‘also ran'.