Rahul Gandhi’s insistence on a new party president despite the CWC’s rejection of his resignation is welcome in a party where leaders cling to posts endlessly. Congress should use Gandhi’s apparent desire to hold himself accountable for the Lok Sabha defeat as an opportunity to end the dynasty’s damaging grip.
World needs new leaders to add muscle to liberal-middle politics
Radical Green and Right parties have won the EU elections. This comes after Australia voted in the conservative party and India voted for the BJP. The world is seeing the return of shrill, extreme economic Left and political Right. Time for new generation leaders to make the liberal-middle muscular again.
For Shri Rahul Gandhi to accept moral responsibility for the electoral verdict is the decent, principled thing to do. However, the Congress is not like Britain’s Labour or America’s Democratic Party, with a gaggle of leaders ready to fill the breach. As Ms Neelam Pandey’s column earlier in the day explained, most of the CWC should be mummified in the Giza Pyramids. For the President to eject at this moment is to condemn the jet to a fiery crash. Whether he relishes the prospect or not, RG has to roll up his sleeves and start the long trek back to relevance for the Congress party. At some stage, when the situation stabilises, the family could recede into the background.
Men like Tony Blair, who invented New Labour, carried forward some of Margaret Thatcher’s good work.
Hey liberal, when did Left become your enemy ? You were in bed with them for more than 3 decades.