Why is the Congress not announcing its CM candidate? By Deepak Parvatiyar February 2, 2015 The Congress is contesting the Delhi assembly election without projecting a chief ministerial candidate. It does have to do something with the party’s tradition — Wherever and whenever out of power, the party prefers to contest without throwing up names for the CM or PM post. Ostensibly, the high command culture in the Congress allows the party leadership to hold horses. Consider how the party avoided naming its chief ministerial candidate during elections in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh where it was in opposition in 2013. Though the Congress could not uproot the BJP government in MP, the strategy paid it rich dividends in Karnataka, where it clinched power from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Throughout the campaign in the Southern state, it was constantly needled by the BJP on the issue of naming its chief ministerial candidate against the latter’s Jagadish Shettar.
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