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Sujay Mehdudia
NEW DELHI: With Congress president Sonia Gandhi having put her seal of approval on re-appointment of Ram Babu Sharma as the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president, it is now time for a new team to take over. However, Mr. Sharma will have to tread cautiously and take everyone along if he has to emerge as a successful party chief and also get the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, to take the party set-up seriously in future, political observers here feel. Having risen to the present position on an anti-Sheila sentiment, Mr. Sharma, now away on a pilgrimage, will return to the Capital next week and find his hands full. His first task would be put a new set-up in place as the old team had been constituted nearly five years ago during the regime of Subhash Chopra. After having taken over from Chaudhary Prem Singh, Mr. Sharma did not make any changes in the team and instead decided to wait for the party polls to assert his position. Political observers here are of the view that with the party polls behind him, Mr. Sharma faces one of the most important tests of his political career. While re-casting the whole party set-up in the Capital, he will have to take along with him all the prominent leaders with whose support he has got this stage. Any slippage on this account could disturb his position within the party and also dilute his campaign to take on the Chief Minister. Already Mr. Sharma has come under fire from his own support group for having gone out of the way to oblige the Member of Parliament from Outer Delhi, Sajjan Kumar, in the nomination of PCC delegates. The new DPCC president will have to accommodate the interests of leaders like Union Minister Jagdish Tytler; former Ministers Ajay Maken and Pervez Hashmi; Delhi Assembly Speaker Chaudhary Prem Singh; former DPCC president Subhash Chopra; and some other leaders. Observers are also of the view that Mr. Sharma will have to get out of the "MCD leader" fold and plan big to emerge as the leader of all sections. It is felt that he has to position himself as the leader of Congressmen and legislators and not just as a leader of the Congress Councillors, a tag that he has been unable to shake off. "The party will have to once again re-establish its supremacy. The leaders and cadres should get full respect from the Government and its Ministers as stated by Ms. Gandhi. And this would be the real test for Mr. Sharma," a senior leader remarked.
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