Rane may have to wait longer for the hot seat
Narayan Rane’s desperate wait for the state’s top job has just got longer or so it seems.
By TNN |
MUMBAI: Narayan Rane���s desperate wait for the state���s top job has just got longer or so it seems. A host of factors seem to have forced the Congress High-Command to defer a decision on the much-speculated change of guard in Maharashtra. The elections in Karnataka, Congress sources said, have come handy for the party bosses in Delhi to put the leadership change issue on the back-burner once again.
This has caused much consternation in the Rane camp which, it is learnt, is running out of patience now. ���Mr Rane is in an extremely defiant mood. Frequent visits to Delhi and hectic lobbying with the high-command since he joined the Congress have not brought him any good so far. Vilasrao Deshmukh continues to live another day despite best efforts by Mr Rane to topple him,��� said a Congress minister.
A senior BJP leader who has an excellent equation with Mr Rane told ET that political machinations within the Congress has left the revenue minister ���high and dry���. He said the revenue minister has got frustrated. ���It���s very difficult for someone who has been trained in a personality-based party like Shiv Sena to adjust to the Congress���s culture. As compared to the Congress, there is less infighting in the Shiv Sena as everyone accepts the supremacy of Balasaheb Thackeray. In Congress also, the reigning Gandhi family is accepted as the leader but everyone else fights for space,��� the BJP leader said.
Another Congress minister pointed out that the Congress has never liked open display of personal ambition. ���One has to be ambitious in politics but an overt display of it is never a good thing in any party, least of all in Congress. In Congress, one has to wait for one���s chance and work discreetly for it. Mr Rane is doing exactly the opposite by making his ambition too obvious and trying to muscle his way up the ladder,��� the minister said.
On the contrary, Congress sources point out, Mr Deshmukh has conducted himself in a much more dignified manner. While in office, the chief minister has always carried himself as the ���chosen one��� who has always been accountable to the high command and ready to pack his bags if asked to. ���By and large, Mr Deshmukh has displayed a dignified demeanour. Despite constant provocation by the Rane camp, he has never thrown tantrums at the party high command. This is how the party leadership expects a leader to conduct himself,��� said a state Congress functionary.
This has caused much consternation in the Rane camp which, it is learnt, is running out of patience now. ���Mr Rane is in an extremely defiant mood. Frequent visits to Delhi and hectic lobbying with the high-command since he joined the Congress have not brought him any good so far. Vilasrao Deshmukh continues to live another day despite best efforts by Mr Rane to topple him,��� said a Congress minister.
A senior BJP leader who has an excellent equation with Mr Rane told ET that political machinations within the Congress has left the revenue minister ���high and dry���. He said the revenue minister has got frustrated. ���It���s very difficult for someone who has been trained in a personality-based party like Shiv Sena to adjust to the Congress���s culture. As compared to the Congress, there is less infighting in the Shiv Sena as everyone accepts the supremacy of Balasaheb Thackeray. In Congress also, the reigning Gandhi family is accepted as the leader but everyone else fights for space,��� the BJP leader said.
Another Congress minister pointed out that the Congress has never liked open display of personal ambition. ���One has to be ambitious in politics but an overt display of it is never a good thing in any party, least of all in Congress. In Congress, one has to wait for one���s chance and work discreetly for it. Mr Rane is doing exactly the opposite by making his ambition too obvious and trying to muscle his way up the ladder,��� the minister said.
On the contrary, Congress sources point out, Mr Deshmukh has conducted himself in a much more dignified manner. While in office, the chief minister has always carried himself as the ���chosen one��� who has always been accountable to the high command and ready to pack his bags if asked to. ���By and large, Mr Deshmukh has displayed a dignified demeanour. Despite constant provocation by the Rane camp, he has never thrown tantrums at the party high command. This is how the party leadership expects a leader to conduct himself,��� said a state Congress functionary.
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