Cong cons people on tirade against Koda

Vijay Deo Jha Ranchi

The Koda Government has no immediate threat from the Congress, which launched an anti-Koda tirade in the State recently.

Top leaders of the party accept this fact in their private discourse. According to sources, the party is not expected to take any decision regarding the withdrawal of support before the month of December this year. If the sources are to believed, the party is planning to fight both Parliamentry and Assembly elections in the State at the same time and the current launch of agitation could be seen in this context.

But leaders see it a last chance for Maken, and party to save their face. However, senior party leaders, including Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of State for Food and Processing, did not mince any word in saying that they were in the process to take some final decision, read withdrawal of support, within two months. But it has not set a deadline for it. unlike Simaria. A top party leader hinted that the central high command asked the State Congress to overhaul the party at grassroots in the state before pulling the rug. While conforming it, a senior party leader said that the State leaders were apprised of the defeat of party in Karnataka that stopped them to adopt a hard posture against the Government. In fact, the party fears anti-incumbency factor intensified more against Congress rather than Koda, who was needed to be softened before election if it least desired for a respected tally in the State in the next parliamentary election. A top party leader on the condition of anonymity revealed that toppling Government was not on the agenda of the Congress high command or Ajay Maken, in-charge to State Congress. The current agitation was launched to assess the strength and mass appeal of the party after its one of the top party leader Maken was lampooned by Opposition parties for staging a political melodrama on the issue of support. A top leader said that the agitation was the part of a pre-electoral exercise to assess the strength and the mass appeal of the party that waned in the last five months. Talking about the strategy of the party behind holding agitation Alok Kumar Dubey, spokesperson of Jharkhand Congress, said they would gherao the Government on at least 17 counts to expose its failure, while at the same time it intends to showcase the achievements of the UPA at the Centre.