Member of Parliament from Virudhunagar and AICC in-charge for Telangana Manickam Tagore believes the party’s main rival in Telangana is the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and dismisses the BJP’s growth story as just hype. The proposed Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi will give a new impetus to the party’s fight against both the TRS and the BJP in Telangana, he said in an interview to The Hindu.
The differences among seniors seem to be hurting the party’s image at a time when it looked to be strongly growing?
Pradesh Congress Committee president is chosen by the Congress president and he represents her in the State. I want to compare the situation with the Cricket analogy. When Mahendra Singh Dhoni was made the captain of the Indian cricket team stalwarts like Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly played under him with the ultimate aim of winning. Similar is the Congress story here. There are bound to be differences of opinion but they all share the common goal of ousting TRS from power. We have anyway created certain mechanisms to create harmony among the leadership and seniors.
