05-20-2011, 04:51 AM
The most common refrain against the Congress is that its central leadership continues to adopt a top-down approach in decision-making, often ignoring local sentiments. Puducherry presents the latest example. "The party high command decided to abruptly remove chief minister N Rangaswamy despite a majority of Congressmen supporting him. He was sidelined completely and the people's anger about that action was reflected in the election", says V Bhalan, general secretary of the rebel All India NR Congress that Rangaswamy floated just before the poll to take on the Congress.
In all of South, the embarrassment was most acute in Puducherry, where NR Congress routed the parent party and won 15 of the 30 seats and got an independent to support it for a clear majority. The result also showed Congress had learnt no lessons from the 1990s when GK Moopanar floated the Tamil Maanila Congress and aligned with the DMK for a landslide victory, embarrassing the Congress. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news...445509.cms
In all of South, the embarrassment was most acute in Puducherry, where NR Congress routed the parent party and won 15 of the 30 seats and got an independent to support it for a clear majority. The result also showed Congress had learnt no lessons from the 1990s when GK Moopanar floated the Tamil Maanila Congress and aligned with the DMK for a landslide victory, embarrassing the Congress. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news...445509.cms