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.
So we are planning to bring back the party that ravaged our country for decades out of spite for the supreme leader. Why can’t we help in the emergence of new parties? Why can’t social activists who have started new parties stick to improving their own? Why an intellectual thinker like YoYa who had started a party of his own, is genuflecting before an insincere entitled fourth/fifth generation upper caste privileged tantrum prone dynast of unteachable mediocrity is beyond all limits of rational explanation. Now even the sister and the brother in law is joining in. Next it will be the nephews. Is that the only replacement of the supreme leader available to India? Have we already forgotten the his arrogant conduct during their last stint in power. Do we really believe he is anything but a dauphin ensorcelled to faux left ideals who will be an even more rapacious dictator? Has YoYa forgotten had Mr Mukherjee and Chidambaram did to the Anna movement that he was so close to? If AK could bring AAP to power in 2 states, with time even YoYa can do the same. He need not start such abject charana vandana of the first family in hopes for scrapes from the high table. Not yet.
YoYa should keep his efforts to convince CONgress his candidature private. Public is not much interested. A party that ruled the country most part post independence, unable to get 100 seats three times in a row is not ANY kind of achievement. One only makes a fool out of oneself by making a mountain out of such molehill.
And the fact that the Congress party is a socialist junkie is a reality, not a myth.