NEW DELHI: Responding to questions on several Pradesh Congress Committees passing resolutions for making Rahul Gandhi as party president, Karnataka state unit chief D K Shivakumar on Tuesday endorsed the resolution and said, “I also stand by it”.
Currently, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu Kashmir units of the party have passed resolutions. The Congress had last month announced that the elections for its president will be held on October 17. The result will be declared on October 19.
As polls to elect the next Congress president are drawing closer, the chorus has yet again started to grow in favour of Rahul Gandhi, who resigned from the post after the 2019 general election debacle.
On Monday, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor met interim president Sonia Gandhi and received the nod to run for Congress president in the upcoming election.
Shivakumar also attacked the BJP and claimed that the Congress has always promoted the Bhagavad Gita and now the Basavaraj Bommai-led government is trying to hijack it.
“The Education Minister doesn’t know that Rajiv (Gandhi) ji, for 3-4 years, came out with a scheme that everyone should see Ramayana and Mahabharata every Sunday on Doordarshan. Rajiv ji promoted Bhagavad Gita to every man and woman in this country. So this is the philosophy of Congress party and now he (Karnataka education minister) is trying to hijack it now,” Shivakumar told ANI.
Primary Education Minister B C Nagesh had, on September 19, announced that the Bhagavad Gita will be taught as part of the moral education syllabus in schools and colleges across the state from December.
The Karnataka Congress chief also met party interim party president Sonia Gandhi at 10, Janpath along with his brother D K Suresh. “It was a courtesy meeting and I wanted to pay my respects. She is our leader.” (ANI)