Assault on India's Democracy by UPA

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<b>Gamble of a daughter-in-law</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Depending on how the Congress uses the weapon of her resignation, it could have the potential to stir a moribund Congress in Uttar Pradesh into action and enthuse its workers, though it is a UP-wallah who initiated the move against Bachchan, which backfired. But the Congress will have to go beyond the ususal drumbeating it generally resorts to at times like this to take advantage of Sonia’s latest step.

<b>While middle-class India and the intelligentsia will view Sonia Gandhi’s resignation as a ploy to get out of a corner, things may be viewed differently by rural India, though it is simplistic to make these divides. Resignation, renunciation and reluctance have proved to be potent political tools in the past. The ‘aam admi’ may not go into the chronology of events or the law but respond more simply by saying, “She gave up her post again.” She may regain the moral authority she had come to acquire when she declined the country’s prime ministership in 2004.</b>
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