New Delhi : The Congress must bring widespread reforms across all levels of the organisation to show it is no longer in a state of inertia and to present itself as a viable political alternative to the BJP, party veteran KapilSibal said on Sunday.Sibal, who was among the G-23 leaders whose letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi last year demanding a meaningful overhaul of the party had triggered a storm, hoped the organisational polls, recently postponed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, will happen sooner than later.In an exclusive interview to PTI, the former union minister acknowledged that at present there is no strong political alternative to the BJP but said that Prime Minister NarendraModi has lost the moral authority to rule and the Congress can present an alternative due to the current mood in the country. He also noted that while forming committees to review election losses is good, it will have no impact unless remedies suggested are implemented.Noting that the party’s alliances with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in Assam and Indian Secular Front (ISF) in West Bengal were not thought through, Sibal said the Congress has failed to drive home the point that minority and majority communalism are equally dangerous for the country. He cited this as one of the reasons for the poor performance of the party in recent assembly polls.

Amid defections of young leaders JyotiradityaScindia and now JitinPrasada to the BJP, the former minister said there is an urgent need to strike a balance between experience and youth. He has earlier said that from aaya ram, gaya ram politics, it has come to “prasada politics now and asked whether Jitin will get the ‘prasada’ from the BJP, suggesting that leaders were moving out of the party to serve their political interests.At present, there is definitely a void in terms of a strong political alternative. It is exactly in this context, that I had given suggestions for some reforms in my party so that the country has a strong and credible opposition. “But what comes out of it is not something for me to foretell. But I am sure, a time will come when the people of this country will decide what is good for them, Sibal told PTI.