I feel Rahul Gandhi, at this point in time, is the main bottleneck in the Congress party. If the party has to come up in some way, from the utter doldrums they it is in, he and his family will have to step down and make way for more efficient leadership. No amount of playing the good boy, or hugging for that matter, is gonna help him or his party in anyway. The sooner he realises that, the better for him and the Congress party. His ineptitude had a massive role to play in the utter drubbing the Congress got at the hands of the BJP in 2014, and even more so in 2019. And the whole strategy of projecting this “good-boy-who-forgives (and hugs to boot)” image would not work against street smart hustlers like the Modi-Shah combine! What the Congress party needs is decisive, proven, overtly powerful leadership that takes visibly tough decisions. While Shashi Tharoor and Chidambaram are too elitist to make any sort of impact, I feel someone like Capt Amarinder Singh would fit the bill perfectly. But it should be a collective decision to project him as their PM candidate for 2024, and it takes vision, which Rahul lacks, and pathetically so! No amount of denial will help a party that is virtually on its deathbed, and the fact that the Nehru/Gandhi family is holding it there will have to be acknowledged!
Excuses like Rahul and his “pan India reach” (seriously?!) simply will not hold water or serve any purpose other than making him feel good, and thereby dousing any chances that he might have to come up in the future. Well, he could not hold on to his own seat (which is supposed to be a Congress stronghold) and is still an MP only because he chose to contest from the safety of Wayanad also! His announcement that he was stepping down immediately post the drubbing his party got in the 2019 elections made me think that he might have learned something from the defeat. But, as it turned out, it was just the usual drama that he chooses to engage in every time they lose. And the other excuse about “party seniors not allowing him (or his mom or his sister) to step down” is plain balderdash. The fact of the matter is that they simply will not step down, and, as long as they cling on there, the party has no future whatsoever. They are fully responsible for the total mess that the country is in right now. The rot in the Congress party started with Indira Gandhi; she institutionalised corruption and turned the party into a family run business more than anything else! Her son, Rajiv, took the rot a step further by giving ground to the BJP to build its politics of hatred on with his brand of shameless appeasement politics and the subsequent Silanyas drama! Priyanka at least is a spontaneous speaker who has charisma, but she carries the dirty baggage of a douchebag of a husband! Rahul introduced himself to us Indians as an absolute idiot, with his utterly foolish interviews and speeches. And for him to outgrow that image that he created for himself is not just going to be a herculean task but pretty much impossible, because however much he tries to cover his “Pappu” image (with all the good boy drama and laboured efforts to project himself as an intellectual) it will keep shining from within, and the number of Indians who take him seriously are few and far between!
The congress said, immediately post the pasting that they got at the hands of the BJP in the 2019 elections, that they will have to reinvent itself - I think it was Shashi Tharoor who said that. If by reinventing what they meant was pouring the old wine into a new bottle and trying to pass it off as Single Malt, then they are simply out of the game completely, which, at the moment, they seem to be! The Congress, at this point in time, will remain a dead horse as long as they have the bro-sis-mom trio guiding them from one tunnel to the other, with no sign of any light at the end of any one of them!!!
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