Shouldn't Congress president have addressed the issue of corruption?

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Ashish Sharma | November 2, 2010



Congress party president Sonia Gandhi addressed the AICC meet on Tuesday and made no reference to the series of corruption scams that have maligned her party and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government in the recent past. She made no mention of the Adarsh Society or the Commonwealth Games, let alone the 2G scam that happened under the watch of her hand-picked prime minister. Instead, she pleaded with Kashmiris suffering the misrule of a chief minister supported by the Congress party to give peace a chance, and she did not forget her customary attack on the so-called communal forces that she said threatened the nation. The question, therefore, arises whether the office of the Congress president, the all-powerful high command, exists only to pay lip sympathy to the marginalised sections of the society and to take credit for the occasional sops doled out by the government in the form of social welfare schemes. Shouldn't the Congress president have addressed the most pressing issue of corruption that seems all-pervasive in her party?

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