Congress is repeatedly shedding elections. This is his huge downside. There might be little doubt about this. The purpose for the notion that the excessive command of the Congress is weak and is appropriate is that the Congress shouldn’t be successful the elections. Before 2014, so long as Congress was successful the elections, it had a authorities on the Center and Congress and its allies had governments in a dozen states, Rahul Gandhi was very sturdy because it was. He used to take choices as per his personal and was able to making anybody a frontrunner or minister. But ever because the collection of election losses began, their energy has been declining and now the scenario has reached such a stage that the social gathering’s satraps are doing their very own factor. Although there’s nothing new on this. When the charisma of the supreme chief of the social gathering fails and he can’t win the elections, then his power is certainly decreased. Same factor occurred with Lal Krishna Advani in BJP.
But the one downside of the Congress shouldn’t be that the Congress excessive command has change into weak as a consequence of not successful the elections. This is one among his many issues. Keep in thoughts that events starting from Bharatiya Jana Sangh to Bharatiya Janata Party and Samajwadi Party have a historical past of shedding elections for a very long time. But questions have been by no means raised about his management in the identical manner as are being raised in regards to the present management of Congress i.e. Rahul Gandhi. There was no such concern over the way forward for the events that misplaced the elections, as there’s in regards to the Congress. The greatest purpose for that is that there’s a scarcity of people doing politics in Congress. Narendra Modi and Amit Shah or regional satraps like Akhilesh Yadav to Mamata Banerjee have made politics a 24-hour job. Rahul Gandhi and the Congress led by him will not be in a position to do that work.
It might be mentioned that the basis reason for all the issues of Congress is that the variety of people doing politics has decreased. It will also be mentioned that Rahul Gandhi has gathered a lot of apolitical people round him. His advisors, be they members of what’s referred to as the coterie or leaders appointed by him within the states, a lot of them are apolitical people, with whom the previous political leaders of Congress will not be capable of preserve tempo. The similar occurred with General Secretary Krishna Allavaru in command of Bihar, the identical is occurring with Okay Raju in command of Jharkhand and Meenakshi Natarajan in command of Telangana. The similar downside is with Maharashtra state president of Congress Harshvardhan Sapkal and the identical downside is with Bihar state president Rajesh Ram. The similar downside goes to come up in Himachal Pradesh with the brand new state president Vinay Kumar. Think, Sonia Gandhi had politicians like Ahmed Patel, Digvijay Singh, Janardan Dwivedi, Motilal Vora, AK Antony, whereas Rahul Gandhi had private associates or advisors like Sachin Rao, Alankar Sawai, Manoj Tyagi, Kaushal Vidyarthi, Krishna Allavaru, Meenakshi Natarajan, Harshvardhan Sapkal! On one aspect there are such apolitical people and on the opposite aspect there are hyperactive leaders like DK Shivkumar, Siddaramaiah, Bhupendra Singh Hooda, Sachin Pilot, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel, Revanth Reddy. How will they coordinate with Rahul’s crew?
Rahul Gandhi has despatched Meenakshi Natarajan, an previous member of his interior crew, as in-cost of Telangana. At first the Congress leaders have been very joyful on his departure however now everyone seems to be apprehensive. She is on foot march in Telangana. Congress leaders say that their job needs to be to make technique, to not do politics. It is true that she is working in a Gandhian manner however sensible politics is being affected by this. When the by-election for Jubilee Hills Assembly was to be contested, Natarajan was not joyful with the techniques utilized by the Congress. Everyone is aware of that the politics of all of the southern states runs on the idea of cash. But Meenakshi Natarajan didn’t just like the state Congress’s excuse of unaccounted cash or sending Azharuddin to the Legislative Council and making him a minister. Similarly, in Bihar, Krishna Allavaru has been doing politics like a salaried worker of Congress. He had reached Bihar simply earlier than the meeting elections. In such a scenario, when he wished to do election politics by taking all of the previous leaders of Congress alongside, quite the opposite, he not solely marginalized the previous leaders but additionally angered all of them. Even after that, if he might have made a greater alliance and seat distribution, then it could have been thought-about that he’s an excellent strategist. But he ruined the Congress in each alliance and seat sharing.
There was a time when Congress leaders throughout the nation had respect for the crew of leaders and advisors near Sonia Gandhi. They have been additionally afraid of them. But now Rahul Gandhi’s crew is a topic of joke. There is discuss of their ‘Jai Jagat’ crew, whose chief is alleged to be Sachin Rao. The leaders of this crew are mentioned to be supporters of doing politics rising above caste, faith, cash energy, muscle energy and so forth. It’s an excellent factor. Mahatma Gandhi thought-about the means as sacred as the tip. But is it doable and sensible to take action in in the present day’s politics? This can be a query that when Rahul Gandhi has completed previous model politics for 20 years, will he be capable of do any good to the Congress by adopting the Gandhian path?
However, Congress faces the problem of regional satraps who do 24-hour politics alongside with BJP. To deal with them, Rahul Gandhi is forming a crew of recent and apolitical people. It might be mentioned that typically after losing interest with a specific sort of politics, people desire another choice. But the time has not but come for such politics in India. The second factor is that steadily there’s a scarcity of such leaders within the Congress Party, who perceive pan-India politics or have a political affect in each state of the nation. If leaders from the second tier don’t come ahead quickly to exchange him, Congress’s issues will improve additional.