Friday 12 July 2019

It’s game over for the Gandhis but Congress has a chance to begin anew

 The prime minister, a former tea seller from Gujarat, makes a far more credible champion of the poor than a globe-trotting champagne socialist from Delhi with a famous last name
Rahul Gandhi
Can India’s Congress Party get by without the Nehru-Gandhi tradition with which it has turned out to be synonymous? For line supporters, habituated to regarding India’s most seasoned ideological group as a family fiefdom, the idea is blasphemous. Be that as it may, they have to recognize a cruel truth: 49-year-old Rahul Gandhi hosts become a risk for the get-together his family has helmed for a significant part of the previous 70 years.
Restored banter about the Congress Party’s future pursues a second back to back drubbing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu patriot Bharatiya Janata Party in the national races in May. Congress won just 52 of 543 seats in the legitimately chosen lower place of Parliament, around one-6th the same number of as the BJP. In 14 of 30 states, Congress couldn’t catch a solitary seat.
A week ago Mr. Gandhi surrendered as the gathering’s leader. In a letter, he acknowledged duty regarding the national annihilation while likewise blaming the BJP for conveying “the whole hardware of the Indian state” against Congress.
In a propelled vote based system, the possibility of a gathering head venturing down after a constituent shellacking would scarcely raise an eyebrow. In the Congress Party, it’s sufficient to trigger a quake. Standard way of thinking in Congress holds that solitary an individual from the family can order the stature to join quarreling party chieftains and inspire laborers. Without a Nehru-Gandhi in control, the contention goes, Congress will rapidly turn into a rudderless chaos…

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