Former Union minister and Congress Working Committee member Salman Khurshid on Tuesday backed the Gandhi family over senior party leader Kapil Sibal’s remarks that “they should be given a chance to lead the party to someone other than a leadership role”. He said the party was facing a ‘crisis of ideas’ and not a crisis of leadership. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot also disagreed with Kapil Sibal’s views.
He said the argument that the party’s performance is lacking only because “we don’t have the right leader” is not acceptable. He told The Indian Express, “The crisis we are facing today in the party and the country is not a leadership crisis. This is a crisis of thoughts. The crisis of thoughts cannot be removed by separating the pieces of our body. The crisis of ideas will be avoided by agreeing on an idea. What is the idea of Congress’s legacy? Let us agree on that and let each of us ask ourselves. Have we lived up to the idea of Congress’s legacy before we talk…the leaders have not done this nor have they done that.” ,