The Congress Working Committee meeting paid tribute two veterans last week, Tarun Gogoi and Ahmed Patel, both who succumbed to Covid-19
-related complications. But it’s the tribute paid to Ahmed Patel that stands out, and which has a telling significance on the party’s future politics.
The CWC said, “Shri Patel’s single contribution was his unique capacity to reconcile competing aspirations and forge unity and comradeship among the leaders and members of the party. Ahmed bhai had no personal ambition. The interest of the Congress was his only interest.”
And this is what could be the beginning of the change in the party’s future politics. The party immediately appointed former minister Pawan Kumar Bansal as the treasurer of the AICC, a post also held by Ahmed Patel.
Choice may seem surprising but then the job of a treasurer is also to ensure that party funds are kept floating and coming. Not many leaders can muster the courage to call up Congress chief ministers and ask them to…
