Congress grassroots leaders face challenges in accessing Delhi leadership

Congress grassroots leaders continue to face challenges in accessing and communicating with senior leaders based in Delhi. This is leading to frustration and disillusionment among party workers due to the centralization of decision-making, difficulty in securing appointments with senior leaders, and the perceived disregard for ground-level feedback.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA NEW DELHI

Last week, a district president level Congress leader came to Delhi to meet the central functionaries to make the case for a senior leader of Jharkhand, who he believed was the best candidate for one of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

The said party leader stayed in Delhi for four days, calling old friends and acquaintances seeking their help in getting an appointment with any of the top leaders of the Congress, without any success.

After much struggle and hours of sitting on the chairs in the Congress office at Akbar road, he and his couple of supporters were able to catch one of a general secretary level leader as he was coming out of his office and moving towards his car and the leader from Jharkhand ran towards him to explain him why the Congress should give the ticket to his preferred leader.

The meeting lasted less than two minutes and it ended with the general secretary dismissing the young leader with a wave of hand, "Dekhte Hain" (I will see).