Congress Has No Right To Govern

In an article at newsinsight.net, NV Subramanian had reported that there were Congress stalwarts assigned to training Rahul Gandhi in the ways of politics. One of them confided in NVS, saying that it was impossible to train this guy. Sometime after that, a senior Congress leader from Andhra revolted against Sonia Gandhi and “left” the party. In a conversation with my friend Swami Thambi, I had predicted that a revolt within the Congress was brewing and would eventually come out in the open. Of course the revolt would be against the Gandhi Family and their chamchas.


The first sign of this was the statement made by Salman Khurshid . The following has been reported on the matter:


Union law minister Salman Khurshid in an apparent dig at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has said the root of the problems plaguing the Congress was the lack of "ideological direction" from its next generation leader.
"Until now, we have only seen cameos of his thought and ideas like democratising elections to the Youth Congress. But he has not weaved all of this into a grand announcement. This is a period of waiting," he said.


Since then, Khurshid has been running from pillar to post, offering clarifications. But the cat is out of the bag. When a party and a family loyalist like Khurshid makes a statement where he calls the heir apparent to the throne unwilling and an ineffective leader then that is far more damning than anything Nitin Gadkari or V S Achuthanandan (who called Rahul an Amul baby) could have ever said. One can only imagine the frustration and loss of faith in the Congress’ top leadership that seems to have set in. If the party faithful have lost faith in Sonia-MMS leadership then what kind of faith should the aam aadmi have in this government?


UPA-II lost the moral right to stay in power long time ago. It seems that they are fast losing ability to stay in power (based on numbers based trust). In that case the right thing would be to hold the general elections as soon as possible. However, that may be wishful thinking on our part. Judging by the horse trading in the Presidential elections, all the regional parties are for sale (Thank You selfish voters of those parties!!). Therefore due to a support from regional parties, pliant president, pliant Supreme Court (why else would they let off Mayawati?) and a divided and inept opposition, Congress will continue to rule us - directionless and leaderless.


The article on Salman Khurshid column can be read at: http://www.newsbullet.in/india/34-more/32460-khurshid-takes-a-dig-at-rahul-terms-congress-directionless