Bhubaneswar: Congress moved to pick up Charanjit Singh Channi as Minister Dalit Sikh First Punjab, replacing Captain Amarinder Singh, reminiscent of one of the party’s similar experiments in Odisha in 1999.
The party then chose Giridhar Gamang, as a cm tribe and removed the influence of Janaki Ballabh Patnaik amid a series of controversy and factionalism in the party.
Just like things that stand nowadays, the caste consolidation is then “quoted” as the main reason behind the height of gamor in a state with a considerable tribal population (22%), although the reason for the removal of JB is very different.
However, Congress never returned to power in Odisha after that.
Only time will tell whether the trial of Punjab will work at this time.
Like in Punjab, where the next assembly selection is due in less than a year, the Odisha training has been carried out months before the assembly poll in 2000.
Apart from the dispute in the party, there was external pressure at the congress then for sacks three times Cm JB after the murder of the Australian missionarist, Graham Stuart staining, and his two sons – Philip (10) and Timothy (6) – In addition to the rape of a well-known gang near Cuttack in January 1999.
After Parleys after Parliament, Gandang, a nine-time parliamentary member With a net record is a choice of party surprises.
A few months later, he failed to lead a party for his victory again.
Congress loses the new BJP and BJD coalition.
Naveen Patnaik becomes cm and has continued to win polls since then, with BJP as a partner in the first two terms and without it after.
JB then became Governor of Assam (2009-2014), but the strength of the Congress only declined in the state.
From being a ruling party until 1999 to sneak into the role of the main opposition until 2019, the congress was removed to third in the latest assembly elections.
In the selection of assembly of Lok Sabha and E simultaneous 2019 in the state, Congress only won one of the 21 seats and nine seats in the membership of the members 147.
Political observers felt the political symbolism was largely unsuccessful.
“Even though the Dalit class is far more organized in Punjab compared to any group in Odisha and its political situation is very different in both countries, symbolism and stop-gap settings today don’t work in the past.
I don’t think it will work this time too,” Gyana Ranjan Swain, a political science teacher at Ravenshaw University, said.