Congress or the Indian National Congress (INC) is one of two major political parties in India. It was founded in 1885 and played a leading role in India’s Independence movement. It has ruled during most of India’s independent years and gave the country its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Leadership of the Congress too has been dominated by the Nehru-Gandhi family.
The Congress is a center-left party, and lists on its website democracy, nationalism, secularism, inclusive growth and social justice as its core values. It last ruled India between 2004 and 2014, but has since lost its sway, being reduced to just 52 seats in the 2019 General Elections. INDIA, the alliance headed by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, was an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Together, the INDIA Alliance secured 238 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. The Congress won 99 of these.
One cannot but wonder whether Mr. Kumar is the apogee of political megalomania and unscrupulousness even in this age of snollygosters. He was a perfidious communist in a campus where left traditionally reigns. When he passed out he became a congressman and went straight to contest a Loksabha seat in Bihar against an ally who was an ex-MP and gave the BJP a massive victory. He never deigned to work at grassroots in the constituency and shifted his avaricious gaze towards a muslim majority seat in Delhi. After losing that, he is now back as the saviour of Bihar and wont settle for anything less the chief ministerial candidacy itself. The person who fled Bihar after his maiden loss is leading a campaign against the flight of labour. Perhaps Mr Kumar has an idee fixe that he is destined to rule “something”. No wonder then he is close to the dauphin of congress who also feels that he is destined to rule India. Perhaps Mr Kumar should take some lesson from his own yatra and stop his reprobate “palayan” from one shot at power to another and instead do some “naukri (service)” of the people before claiming their rulership.