He has been defending the Congress Party for last six years as its spokesperson in Maharashtra but has now come out in his own defence.
He wants to know whether “sincerity, loyalty, dedication and efficiency” have any meaning in today’s politics. PCC spokesman and general secretary Anant Gadgil has written letters to party chief Sonia Gandhi, PM Manmohan Singh, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in this regard. Mr Gadgil, M. Arch (USA), has been working in the party for the last 17 years. He started from the Youth Congress and then worked in the Maharashtra Congress. But his work in the organisation in different capacities does not appear to have influenced the high command as he was not considered either for the Lok Sabha or the state legislature till today. The late Rajiv Gandhi had promoted youths and made them MPs, legislators.
Mr Gadgil brings some facts to the notice of the CWC members, including Mr Pranab Mukherjee, Mr A.K. Antony, Mr Oscar Fernandes and AICC officials through a letter.
In this letter, he said: “Considering the kind of treatment meted out to someone like me coming from the family which has seen three generations devoted to the Congress, I am beginning to feel whether my sincerity, loyalty, dedication and efficiency will ever be recognised in the party? Is it that the work of my late grandfather (N.V., alias Kakasaheb Gandgil) who spent 10 years in jail fighting the British rule or my father (V.N. Gadgil) who breathed his last as a true Congressman has no relevance in today’s politics? Or is that a person like me with a clean image has no news value in today’s politics? I am trying to understand as to why every time I am neglected in a party which has a tradition to recognise those who work hard for organisation,” he said. His father, the late V.N. Gadgil, had to pay a heavy price for the loyalty to the Nehru-Gandhi family within the Congress in the post-Rajiv Gandhi era.