He rushed to Hyderabad within two days of a young Dalit scholar’s suicide to demand sacking of individuals involved. Students however rejected his attempts to politicize the issue. His words did not indicate his understanding of issues involved for his advisers had failed to do necessary homework before rushing him.
List of his failures to lead the party in state after state elections with culmination in the Lok Sabha elections is long. Yet the party clings to him and he does not intend to abandon his post despite long list of failures. He has not even suggested a stormy introspection for a series of electoral failures of the party since 2010. The Congress has been wiped out from state after state though he led the party to elections. The mother and the son blamed the inability of the party state units to convert the goodwill they churned by their campaigning.
No one in the party dared to point out that state unit leaderships were nominated at their behest by their advisers and as such they had to bear responsibility for nominations. No one dares as they are depending on the family for their position. The failures reflect the leadership qualities of both. They depend solely on the family charisma as they see around them party leaders and workers bending with folded hands to receive some crumbs. That may lead them to assume that the country would also bend to them.
In last two decades India has undergone a drastic transformation. It is reflected in increased number of school attending children. The change is also reflected in that the party has not gained as many votes in states as many, the party claims, to have received benefits of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, a pet idea of the Congress president. Even poor is now seeking empowerment of his child through education rather than augmentation of the family income from child labour of their progeny. They have no more desire to allow their child to pass through sufferings of same social and economic injustice that attended their poverty.
The Congress men and women who evolved he party programmes were not even cognizant of the drastic transformation. They continued emphasis on social welfare schemes that promised cheap food to two thirds of population. Yet the party netted only 44 seats, not even ten per cent of the strength of the Lok Sabha. It could not open account in 14 states and many of its candidates could not retain their security deposits. Why did it happen? No exercise was carried out to anaalyse results to pin point the causes of the steady shrinking of its social and geographical reach.
The party faced state elections in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Haryana, Kashmir, Delhi and Bihar after the severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls. In Bihar alone it could salvage its strength but after it surrender its national status to become a B team of the regional forces. It was voted out of power in Maharashtra and Haryana. Now it would have to face elections in several states during the next eighteen months. It faces the danger of losing its governments in Assam and Karnataka. But the party high command indicates no desire to evolve steps to stand the party on its strength through corrective measures to improve its programmes that can regain the party its lost grounds.
Instead the party entered into unholy alliance with the left parties in Bengal where the assembly elections are due in April this year. The left parties had kept the Congress out of power corridors for more than three decades. It fought the last election in alliance with Mamta Bannerji. It became without base after Mamta Bannerji jettisoned the party as unnecessary load in her neck. Instead of attending to much needed task of rejuvenation of the party, it showed its craving for power by entering into the electoral understanding with the Marxists while it was still fighting them in Kerala. The alliance is sheer opportunism and is evident even to political novice. How can ther party join hands with the Marxists that is the main opposition in Kerala? Does the party high command believe that it can easily fool the masses even with such blatant contradiction in its political stand?
The party high command is unable to overcome its fears of a strong leader emerging in the state for it smells a potential in a strong leader to challenge the leadership of the Gandhi family. Without the strength to the state units, the Gandhi family faces dangers of extinction. It ought to have read a clear message in action of two young girls from poor family accosting Prianka Gandhi during the state assembly election campaign in 2012 and asking her a question. The courage they displayed in asking the question to what was considered to be royalty was clear indication of the end of the Empire. Only true politician could have read a clear political message in it. Butt craving for power is so overpowering that the party leadership is unable to see the writings on the wall. Rahul Gandhi attends every media reported incident in a hope that his words of sympathy would get recover the lost glory.
India
RAHUL GANDHI'S POLITICAL TECHNIQUES
VERY LITTLE TO GIVE EXCEPT EMPTY WORDS
Vijay Sanghvi - 2016-01-21 19:37
A class of small traders rush from fair to fair, some connected with special pilgrims and others to special days in a year, often with trinkets for household utility wares to earn their living. Rahul Gandhi, the Congress vice president seems to have adopted the technique and keeps rushing from incident to incident, nature inflicted or manmade, with very little to give except empty words of sympathies to victims and mostly to lay the blame at door steps of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is accompanied by a large posse of young in company, who depend largely on seeking use of their visiting card for politics than on real action. He has nothing to offer as his party is politically bankrupt and organizationally a boneless hulk. As a person with high ambitions to be a national politician, he does not display on his sleeves a national solution for anyone problem, cause of catastrophes.