00:00There have been long rumours about a certain drift within the Congress Party.
00:04Congress President Malik Arjun Khadge, without taking names,
00:08mentioned about certain leaders who are getting a lot of media attention
00:11and have not been speaking out against government issues.
00:15It is anybody's guess who Malik Arjun Khadge is referring to.
00:19Khadge, sounding disappointed, though he did not name any leader,
00:23also pointed out, without identifying anyone,
00:25that some party members often make comments or write articles
00:28not reflecting party line.
00:30Khadge's comments at CWC meet came after Shashi Tharoor at an event, coincidentally,
00:35recently said many issues championed by Cockroach Janata Party
00:38during protests had already been raised by Rahul Gandhi
00:41through his Chhatroki Goonj campaign.
00:44But those concerns had failed to generate the same level of public response.
00:52The established parties will cease to be relevant
00:56unless they can listen to the new voices that they haven't heard so far.
01:01And I think, frankly, we should have started hearing them already with this.
01:05Interestingly enough, the issues taken up by the CJP and the Jantaravanta protesters
01:09had been taken up by us earlier.
01:11We had a Chhatroki Goonj thing,
01:13where Rahul Gandhi was addressing students about the paper leaks,
01:16about the things and so on.
01:17And that didn't resonate, sorry, Ritra,
01:19but that didn't resonate as much as this did.
01:21Correct.
01:21And that's why we need to ask ourselves,
01:23what did we fail to do?
01:25Did we fail to listen?
01:26Did we fail to tap into,
01:28you know, the old cliche of having a finger on the pulse of the people's knee
01:32was our finger missing from the pulse of JNZ?
01:34And that's something we really need to interrogate and solve.
01:37We'll see you next time.
