The problem with Congress in rebuilding the UPA structure or forming a new alliance is that most opposition leaders have a problem with Rahul Gandhi.
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The Congress-led UPA, now a day, is not the old stronghold of politics and power rather a dilapidated facade of once reigning force of the nation. Barring a handful of major political players, there is not much to write about in UPA, which is trying to find its relevence in the current political landscape.
In fact, parties that are not part of the UPA have started calling out for a new alliance of opposition parties. For example Congress’ ‘ally’ in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena, whose MP Sanjay Raut gave the clarion call for a new opposition stressing that UPA has become defunct. Notably, Sena and Congress are part of the Mahavikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra.
Moreover, another constituent of the MVA, the NCP, is definitely a constituent party in the Congress-led UPA but its leaders are behaving completely differently as Sharad Pawar and his close leaders are trying to form a separate opposition alliance. Pawar recently met Prime Minister and there was speculation about ‘various possibilities’.
And even being part of UPA, Sharad Pawar has made several remarks on Rahul Gandhi, due to which the leaders of the new generation of Congress are angry with him. So, in a way, the NCP is different from it despite being in the UPA.
Similarly, both the regional parties of Uttar Pradesh are in opposition and both have political commonality with Congress, but neither of them – Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP – is in UPA.
At present, the biggest face of opposition politics is that of Mamta Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress is the largest party of the opposition, but Didi too is not a part of UPA.
The Congress formed a coalition with JDS in Karnataka but JDS too is not a part of the UPA. The Congress has goodwill with the Left parties. It had given outside support to the UPA-I government and both the parties have been fighting the Bengal assembly elections together for two terms. But the left too, is out of UPA’s ambit.
Another major opposition party is Aam Aadmi Party but that too is not in UPA. DMK, RJD and JMM; these are the only three big parties, which are in UPA and their leaders attend UPA meetings. Apart from these, some other small parties are definitely in the UPA which takes the numbers to 40, but these parties do not have any special meaning.
Therefore, the Congress should form a fresh alliance and the parties who believe in the leadership of the Congress should be included in it.
The problem with Congress in rebuilding the UPA structure or forming a new alliance is that most opposition leaders have a problem with Rahul Gandhi.
Leaders of most major parties are not ready to accept Rahul as their leader. Some people have their own ambitions, and question putting Rahul over themselves; then there are some people who have started believing the campaign done by the BJP against Rahul is right.
Keep in mind that the BJP has established Rahul Gandhi as ‘Pappu’ with the help of its IT cell in the last seven years. BJP leaders fight only with Rahul Gandhi by all means, and are also engaged in proving him that he is not worth anyone.
The BJP has created an impression that the BJP benefits from the existence of Rahul Gandhi, the politician. Leaders of many opposition parties consider this to be true and they feel that staying with Rahul can harm them.
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