Imagine you have your father at your home who want to see
you succeeding but he has put a bar for your success. He wants your success to
remain less than what he himself had achieved. The prevailing situation in the
Congress party appears similar after the ouster of young and bright leader
Sachin Pilot. Sachin Pilot was looking to fly higher but he came in a radar
which has shot down his wings. This is the radar of a family which had shot
many including Himanta Biswa Sarma, Jyotiraditya Scindia and the list goes on. The
Gandhi family obsession with Congress is not new. In fact, this obsession had
diluted the original Congress party which had fought for the independence of
India after Indira Gandhi had split the party in 1969 to save her political
ambitions.
Since then, Congress has evolved as a party where the topmost
thing for anyone to survive is the loyalty to the Gandhi family. You can have
less quality to be an efficient politician, but one should ensure that they
have loyalty to the Gandhi family. However, this family influence in the party
has not done anything good to the prospect of Congress. After the assassination
of Rajiv Gandhi, Congress had undoubtedly able to form government under UPA-1
and UPA-2 but it was not because they enjoyed massive public support unlike the
Modi government. They had formed the government because of arithmetics and decent political alliance.
But since 2014, after the emergence of dominant and power-packed
leadership of Modi, the Congress is in the doldrums and the party is facing the
crisis on their existence. No one should be blamed expect Gandhi family who is constantly
trying to relaunch the family prince Rahul Gandhi. This is something like
putting an effort to repackage once flopped product with a marketing strategy
in the market. But marketing strategy
only works if the product is useful, if the product is useless then no
marketing strategy will work.
There are countless elections which Congress had poorly lost
since 2014 and even if they claim winning Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, it was
all because of the influence of young leaders like Scindia and Sachin Pilot. It
was not because the charisma of Rahul Gandhi which is a myth today harming
Congress. But yet, these influential young leaders we’re given a back seat and
the old horse like Gahelot and Kamalnath was given the front seat. It was all
because the Gandhi family want no one to emerge as mass leader who will
challenge the Gandhi family fortunes in Congress. Old leaders are experienced
and they must look after the organisation strength and young leaders must get
their deserved status in Congress but Gandhi family will allow this seems
beyond possibility. This is the core difference between BJP and Congress. For
BJP, the nation is first, party is second and family is last but for Congress
family is first because the culture of Congress have equated the nation to
family.
This is the not the same India which it used to be in the 1990’s
or 2000 when there was dearth of leadership and people would accept anyone like
Dr. Manmohan Singh as leader pushed by Gandhi family. This is 2020 where we
have influential leaders like Modi, Yogi, and Shah. The battle is very tough
and so competitors like Rahul or Priyanka from the family can’t even stand in
this contest. People have yet not forgotten the administrative blunders of
Congress regime and Congress pushing forward the leadership of same family
again and again is not offering voters anything new. In addition, the character
of Gandhi family among voters is not good after the recent exposes on their
links to China and their conduct on national issues.
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