Congress: Fallout Of UP Elections

Even after pulling out all the stops, indulging in the cheapest of theatrics, pandering to their now lost votebank, eating with the poor and similar tricks, Rahul Gandhi, family name, white skin and all, came up croppers. Of course unlike the shameless BJP leadership, the Congress leaders have started to accept blame for their roles. Rahul Gandhi has accepted his mistakes. Even the despicable Digvijay Singh has apologized. All we are hearing from the BJP leadership is how they have won the all important elections in Punjab (where they have actually lost two seats as compared to the last time) and Goa. No mention of UP elections.

Of course the UP results indicate that the Sins at the center caught up to the Congress in the worst way. Leaders of the party are trying their best to insulate the family from any negative fallout but I don’t think that will be possible. Non family loyalists ( I think they are there. I hope they are there. I pray they are there) will finally begin to question the role of the Gandhi family in Congress’ future. Sonia and Rahul played an important part in uniting the party in the late 1990’s. They may even have helped them will in 2004. However, being part of an extremely corrupt government and relying on shameless sycophants for feedback, the mother and son duo started to believe in the legend. But recent failures (TN, WB, Bihar, Punjab and now UP) show that the magic, if it actually was were there, is now gone. This family has made enough money at the expense of India and Indians and time has come for them to leave (impotent Indian law cannot do anything to them anyways).

Congress has an important role to play in India. It is still the only national alternative to the BJP. If you take out the Gandhi family from that party and let leaders rise to the top due to their merit then you have a party which we all could consider voting for. Surely they are (without the family) a much better alternative to criminal regional parties like AIDMK, DMK, SP and BSP. They are the only party with presence in every corner of India (e.g. Manipur). I wish that the newer generation of Congress leaders would eschew the old votebank politics and delusions of their brand of secularism and do what is right. That way Congress can become the party of Sardar Patel and LB Shastri rather than a party which carried on the worst of the old British traditions.