Will Ashwini’s exit really hurt Cong chances in Punjab?

New Delhi: Ashwini Kumar has never been a leader with an immense hold in the grass-root and has never been active in day-to-day politics.

He has not played the same role in legal matters as Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi or Vivek Tankha. Despite this, he continued to get his work done by managing some kind of jugaad within the Congress.

He was a Rajya Sabha member thrice. Think, how many such leaders will be there in Congress or BJP, who were sent to Rajya Sabha thrice? After this, he became a minister at the Center by aligning his Punjabiyat to Manmohan Singh.

He left the Congress just before the voting for the ongoing Assembly in Punjab. Everyone knows that his stay or leaving has no effect on the Congress, but his resignation is being covered by the media as if it has spelt doom for Congress.

That’s when it seems that his resignation has been done under some plan. By the way, the immediate reason, doing the round, is that he was asking for a ticket for the assembly in Punjab for his son, which the Congress did not give.

He realised that even for him it will be difficult to get anythin in Congress, so he became a part of the ‘big game’ of damaging the Congress, thinking that he might get something from there.

Congress leaders have such greed for trading their position for favors that any party is using them. However, five days before the polling, his resignation seems to be a calculated move because immediately after his resignation, leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, etc. have given statements saying that the resignation has been done under a plan. However, its effect will not be seen now but only after the election results.