There goes Congress’ final bastion because it faces full rout within the Northeast

The household enterprise and dynastic politics of the Congress Party has been swept except for the Northeast after 15 years of no seen progress. On Tuesday, Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Govindas Konthoujam resigned from his put up with eight different Congress MLAs, who’re reportedly on their technique to be part of the BJP at the moment, reported ANI quoting sources.Konthoujam occurs to be a six-time consecutively elected Congress MLA from Bishnupur Assembly Constituency, Sonia Gandhi appointed him because the president of MPCC in December final 12 months. He had served as a Cabinet Minister in Manipur. Back in June he attacked Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh for his “insensitivity and public mockery”. Stagnation within the social gathering and an absence of progress are being cited as the primary cause for his exit in response to sources.The resignation got here as a shock to the Congress social gathering, as they had been already making ready for the polls early subsequent 12 months. Trying to place up a courageous face amid the mass exodus Congress chief Gaikhangam Gangmei stated that the defection of the MLAs wouldn’t weaken “the party in any way”. He additionally stated those that selected to defect to the ruling BJP “lack political principles”.Konthoujam stated, “The Chief Minister was asking what the previous Congress governments had done for the state in 15 years. I want to ask him, wasn’t he a Cabinet minister in the Congress government led by Ibobi Singh?”He additional provides, Biren had additionally served because the Congress authorities’s spokesperson, how a lot cash the state authorities had invested for the welfare of its individuals throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. “Why did the CM take Rs 167 crore through petrol from the people’s pockets during the pandemic instead of giving an economic package to the poor?”In the 2017 polls, The Congress social gathering had bagged extra seats than the BJP however it nonetheless did not cross the midway mark of 31 and was unable to kind an alliance to mark its declare to kind a authorities. The BJP, alternatively, racked up 21 seats however it was nimble sufficient to sew alliances with different events to kind a authorities within the state.Prior to 2016, out of the seven northeastern states the Congress had its monopoly over 5 states. Tripura had the Left Front ruling whereas Nagaland had a regional social gathering in energy. However, after the 2016 meeting polls in Assam, issues have began to alter because the Northeastern states began transferring out of the online of the Congress social gathering one after one other.The BJP, after coming to energy in Assam, promoted a Northeast model of NDA, a platform of non-Congress regional events. North-East Democratic Alliance or NEDA got here to energy in Manipur, changed the Left Front in Tripura and at last shaped the governments in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram. The BJP was then voted again to energy in Arunachal Pradesh in 2019. Congress lastly misplaced all its energy within the Northeast after it was defeated by the Mizo National Front (MNF) in 2018, which is a constituent of NEDA.These states of North East had been thought of to be stronghold of Congress, they usually believed that BJP’s Hindutva politics gained’t work right here, however BJP has modified the entire graph right here. The Congress social gathering’s historical past tells us that it can’t chorus itself from corruption. After 15 years of monopolistic rule in Assam adopted by different northeastern states, the dynastic rule has lastly come to an finish because the BJP creates historical past by changing into the one non-congress authorities to win in consecutive years.