Congress leader P Chidambaram Friday said the "lesson" from the Kamraj plan, under which senior ministers were asked to serve the party, was forgotten and this has hurt the organisation.
In 1963, Congress leader K Kamaraj had proposed to the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru that all senior party leaders holding ministerial office resign and take up party work.
Responding to a question on why the Congress was not able to generate ideas to counter the challenges faced by the country, Chidambaram said, "You feel that the Congress party has not risen to the carriage. I must accept our failure...that not because we are not trying."
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