Updated On: 06 December, 2021 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
‘Mamata isn’t entirely wrong; you need to get rid of detachment, widen the work sphere, engage people 24x7 and not disappear very often’

Rahul Gandhi during the Winter Session of Parliament in New Delhi, on December 3. Pic/PTI
Keeping up with the party tradition, Congress leaders competed with each other while slamming the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her comment that Rahul Gandhi was inactive in the field, and only those who worked hard deserved a place in the anti-BJP front comprising like-minded opposition parties. Naturally, her notion about keeping the Congress out has been dismissed as misplaced and fuelled by her personal ambitions. Yet, there is something that the Congress workers, who genuinely wish Rahul more power, agree with the TMC president. They believe what Mamata has been saying specifically about their leader is not out of sync, as far as his unexplained detachment and disappearances are concerned.
Umpteen attempts have been made in the past to make Rahul understand why the party needs him full-time to engage with the Congress’s dedicated vote base that no other party in the current opposition has and can think of winning anytime soon. To be fair with them, the Congress workers don’t appear wrong while expecting Rahul to be a 24x7 leader, instead of being in the renouncing mode, when they need him the most.