Saturday, December 1, 2012

Opening a Pandora's Box

Alva's statement and resignation may start series of apprehensions

Bowing down to pressures, Congress General Secretary, Margaret Alva finally resigned from her post on November 11, 2008 – five days after she made derogatory remarks about the distribution of party seats during Karnataka Assembly elections. She claimed that the distribution was done on the basis of price one could attach with the seats. She said that the party was selling seats. "People who make guidelines are the ones who are breaking it," she said. The party was quick to react and her name was referred to the Disciplinary Action Committee.

The whole issue started when Alva showed her unhappiness over denial of an election ticket to her son, Nivedith during the recent Karnataka elections. She made the allegations after it became evident that as many as 23 candidates were relatives of senior Congress leaders. The party high command is tight-lipped over the issue, but this kind of events show that there is a gap rising in the party.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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