Will Kanhaiya Kumar be useful for the Congress party in Delhi?

New Delhi: A big plan is being made in the Congress regarding its leader Kanhaiya Kumar. It is being told that he can be made the President of the Delhi Pradesh Congress or the National President of Youth Congress. Youth Congress President BV Srinivas is 42 years old and has been working as the President for almost four years. That’s why there has to be a new president in his place. Srinivas may find a place in Mallikarjun Kharge’s central team. Looking at his activeness and his popularity, he can be made the general secretary in charge of a state. But many Congress leaders are of the view that making Kanhaiya Kumar the Youth Congress president in his place will not be very effective.

Kanhaiya Kumar can be more effective as state president in Delhi. Keep in mind that the Bharatiya Janata Party has been trying to get the migrant votes in Delhi for the last several years, but has not been successful. Manoj Tiwari, a resident of Bihar, and Satish Upadhyay of Uttar Pradesh were made the state president of Delhi by the BJP. Now after getting tired, BJP has returned to its old Punjabi and Vaish politics and has made Virendra Sachdeva the working president. In this sense too, there is an opportunity for the Congress to hand over the command of the party to a person from Purvanchal. Kanhaiya fits this scale.

He is from Bihar, has lived in Delhi and studied at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), is a good orator and has taken organizational training while living in the Communist Party. That’s why he can be useful to the Congress.

After all, Sheila Dikshit from Uttar Pradesh had helped the Congress gain a foothold in Delhi and because of her the vote of Purvanchal was associated with the Congress. Whether Kanhaiya Kumar will be able to do exactly that or not, it cannot be said, but it is sure that if the Congress gives him the charge of the Delhi Pradesh, he will make an impact in the migrant vote. With this, the momentum for the Congress can also be created.

The difficulty is that he is not a traditional Congressman like Sheila Dikshit and because of this the big leaders of the Delhi Pradesh Congress will find it difficult to work with him. In Delhi, the Congress has few young leaders left and most of the leaders are old. From Jaiprakash Agarwal in charge of Madhya Pradesh to Ajay Maken and from Mangatram Singhal, Kiran Walia to Sandeep Dixit, all have been MPs, MLAs and ministers. Kanhaiya, on the other hand, has contested elections only once. Old leaders will feel uncomfortable working with him. That’s why lobbying has started that he is young so he should be made the President of Youth Congress. Delhi Pradesh Congress leaders are also arguing that the migrant vote has gone towards the Aam Aadmi Party and considering the schemes launched by the AAP government, it will be difficult to bring the migrant vote back to the Congress.