It is no coincidence that young performing political leaders are replacing the old guards on vital stage of state and central politics. Omar Abdulla, Rahul Gandhi, Sukhvir Singh Badal, Narendra Modi, Mamta Banerjee, Jyotiraditya Scindia, have stepped into the shoes of their old seniors like Manmohan Singh, Farook Abdulla, Prakash Singh Badal, Lal Krishna Adwani, Digvijaya Singh and many old guards.
21st century has a new wave of fresh air in the support of young Turk performers, blended with the experience and guidance of old warhorses. A forty year old economist Raghuram Rajan is better suited to head the central bank RBI then any near sixty, retiring secretary from finance department, but still Amritya Sen or Bhagvati or Rangarajan's advices are more valuable for guidance purpose .
The wise like Manmohan Singh, L K Adwani, Sonia Gandhi , Farook Abdulla relinquish their decorated post gladly, but few power hungry like Digvijaya Singh, Ajit Jogi will never be able to read between the lines and thus are forcibly discarded.
An outspoken or rather foul spoken General Secretary of Congress has been ousted from his power post for a decade, but his desire for that has not been lost, for that he always prefers to be in the media lime light, more often for wrong reasons or even attempts to anti national mutterings such as :
A day after Congress disowned Shakeel Ahmed's statement in the tweet alleging that the banned terror outfit "Indian Mujahideen was formed after the Gujarat riots" that stirred a political storm; but media glare happy Digvijaya Singh said, "Ahmed was an "experienced" leader and "he must have made the comments after proper thought".
Digvijaya Singh had earlier doubted over the authenticity of Batala House encounter in which Delhi Police decorated officer M.C. Sharma was killed and even he termed the encounter as fake and demanded for judicial enquiry into it. Singh refused to take back his words even after the Delhi sessions court judgement in which court hold Indian Mujahideen operative Shahzad Ahmed guilty of killing inspector MC Sharma and termed 2008 Batala House encounter as genuine.The judgement has once again exposed the habit of Congress general secretary to give controversial and irresponsible statement.
Digvijaya Singh targeted Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and his BJP colleagues saying they badly needed "lessons in good behaviour and social etiquette" and joked on Narendra Modi for making his speeches from the replicas of the Red Fort rather than the real one.
Showing his character Digvijaya Singh targeted columnist Shobha De for her remark that many political leaders are as 'sadak chaap', Singh noted (or accepted what he is destined to ? ) that the remark does at least appreciate the fact that politicians have "their foot firmly on ground".
Digvijaya Singh had been getting unfair treatment at the hands of party men and specially a much younger Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is being portrayed as the Congress' chief minister probable. Earlier this month, the Scindia faction organised a rally in Morena where Digvijaya Singh was kept waiting and sweating profusely on the dais,for more than two hours by the Union minister of state.
But on last evening, the Congress finally signalled closer of its doors on AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh, even denying him entry into the state PCC conference hall for the press conference called by Union minister of state Jyotiraditya Scindia and Mohan Prakash, Sanjay Nirupam, Kantilal Bhuria,Ajay Singh.
Digvijaya Singh and his supporters stood outside, banging the doors for nearly 20 minutes, making desperate calls from their mobile phones asking Congress workers inside to open the door. The banging on the door continued, but Scindia refused to buzz and asked Congress workers not to let in whoever was knocking. Senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam also instructed not to allow him. Yes, Scindia said to press there was no factional rivalry within the party, echoing the high command's view on Digvijaya Singh .
Even highly desperate Dig sir tried to gain entry through the back door, that was also jammed and then the miffed Dig sir turned to the elevator but that was also shut on second floor. An infuriated and irate Dig sir and his supporters walked out of the state Congress office. Feeling hurt and humiliated, he climbed into his SUV and left the Congress office with his supporters following in a cavalcade.
Humiliated time and again by the Congress party and their leaders, what the frustrated Dig sir will do now ?
Will Digi sir join hands now with his bete noire BJP ?
Will Digi sir join hands now with his bete noire BJP ?