Rahul vows to take Congress forward, okay but how?
Dwivedi
said
the
Lok
Sabha
election
is
not
a
battle
between
two
individuals
but
rather
between
parties.
Other
sources
in
the
party
also
hinted
at
a
big
announcement
coming
in
the
party
after
the
debacle.
Around
5
pm,
Congress
vice-president
Rahul
Gandhi
vowed
to
bring
changes
in
the
party
in
a
way
that
would
bring
it
closer
to
the
common
men.
If
the
dots
are
joined,
the
picture
that
emerges
is
the
anointment
of
Rahul
Gandhi
as
the
face
of
the
grand-old-man
party.
But
how
far
is
that
step
going
to
help
the
Congress
at
this
point
of
time?
Not
much.
Rahul
Gandhi
hasn't
succeeded
in
boosting
his
party's
prospects
since
the
2009
Lok
Sabha
polls
in
Uttar
Pradesh.
The
party's
hopes
on
him
were
dashed
in
the
2012
assembly
polls
in
the
same
state
where
another
young
leader
in
Akhilesh
Yadav
stole
the
show.
The Congress has lost in states like Punjab, Bihar, Gujarat, Tripura and now this massive debacle. Can Rahul Gandhi be reliable enough to overhaul a demoralised party now, and that too just six months ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections?
The problem with the Congress is that it is too much concerned about the change at the top, thinking whether another Gandhi would take up the reins of power. Such thinking is not fit to take the party forward at any cost. Rahul Gandhi admitted that the AAP has involved more people than many other traditional parties, an observation that sufficiently indicates where the Congress is falling back.
1-year-old AAP has left 128-year-old Congress in a shambles in Delhi
The Congress looks down and almost out now. It is paying off for sitting idle and expecting that problems would take care of themselves. It allowed Narendra Modi to gather a momentum even while trying to outsmart him.
There was no policy whatsoever, be it at the administrative or political level. Rahul Gandhi's call for reviving the party in a hard way sound superficial for it is impossible for one individual to revive an entire national outfit. Rahul Gandhi's work for the organisation so far has meant trying to innovate ticket-distribution scheme for the polls and putting up a moral standard. Is that enough?
The Congress which had once fought for India's nationalism was not an organisation which was prepared by one individual and it was a social coalition held together by a common ideology and will to succeed. The Congress of today is a left-over organisation, which was put to test by individual and family-centric politics and has no link with the roots whatsoever. For the Gandhis, it might be just another routine failure but for the party which had once a glorious past, it is a massive tragedy.
This is December. The Congress is about to complete 128 years. Its decline has reached such a state that leave aside the BJP, even a one-year-old Aam Aadmi Party is toying with its prospects. What next for the Congress for here? The question is bound to scare some people.