{"id":352411,"date":"2025-02-14T00:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=352411"},"modified":"2025-02-14T00:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:54:31","slug":"has-congress-realised-that-kharges-attack-on-kumbh-backfired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/has-congress-realised-that-kharges-attack-on-kumbh-backfired\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Congress realised that Kharge&#8217;s attack on Kumbh backfired?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"769\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/02\/Sachin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/02\/Sachin.jpg 769w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/02\/Sachin-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/02\/Sachin-696x789.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/02\/Sachin-370x420.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Photo : Naveen Bansal<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few days a realisation seems to have dawned on the Congress, that its chief Mallikarjun Kharge&#8217;s controversial comments on Kumbh were hurting the party&#8217;s prospects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, the grand old party seems to be in a damage control mode, sending its top most leaders from various states to take the holy dip in Prayagraj.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few days, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivkumar, former chief minister of Madhya&nbsp;Pradesh Digvijaya Singh and&nbsp;former chief minister of&nbsp;Rajasthan Sachin Pilot from and many others have frequented the holy festivities in Mahakumbh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had put his party leaders and INDI bloc in a bind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t fall into the trap of false promises of (Narendra) Modi. Is poverty ended by taking a dip in the Ganga? Does it fill your stomach? I don&#8217;t want to question anyone&#8217;s &#8216;aastha (faith)&#8217;. If anyone feels bad, I apologise,&#8221; Kharge had said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress chief&#8217;s statement was seen as a lack of coordination and clarity on important political subjects between various alliance partners of the INDI bloc.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress chief&#8217;s comments also highlight the total disconnect that the top leadership of the grand old party has with the grassroots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party has also not lost the opportunity to bring Kharge&#8217;s comments to the notice of voters, while attempting to reinforce the perception being built that the grand old party was anti majority community and was only interested in appeasing minorities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days a realisation seems to have dawned on the Congress, that its chief Mallikarjun Kharge&#8217;s controversial comments on Kumbh were hurting the party&#8217;s prospects.&nbsp; Hence, the grand old party seems to be in a damage control mode, sending its top most leaders from various states to take the holy dip in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":352412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[16003,19046,18700,19115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352414,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352411\/revisions\/352414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/352412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}