Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 4

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N.V. Subramanian writes



The Congress party is losing its way and may become irrelevant for the country

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It is manifest to senior Congressmen who have decades of experience as politicians and administrators that the Sonia-Manmohan Singh experiment of she handling politics and he government has outlived its utility, if it had any in the first place. They understand Sonia Gandhi's insecurity to abide with Manmohan Singh till such time Rahul Gandhi is ready to be prime minister. But to them, he does not ever appear ready or willing to take on such responsibility, not to speak of his competence or lack of it for the top job.



Yet, meanwhile, as this waiting game goes on, the drift in government is becoming harder and harder to arrest, and Congress leaders see it as most unfortunate that its worst consequence has become felt in J and K. "We have lost all political traction in Kashmir and in several other parts of the country," a senior Congress politician said in the intimacy of Congress circles....



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If this were only a question of reining in individual ambitions, if at all, you could put it in the past and go ahead. But senior Congress leaders feel blighted by the fact that they don't see any road ahead and certainly no roadmap to head them on it. All they frighteningly observe is fog and a drift which has taken on a nasty permanence of its own. The longer this drift continues in which the fog gets thicker and thicker, the harder it will be to retrieve the situation, and the unspoken thought is that it will then be too late for Rahul Gandhi to mend things, assuming that he can. Those who watch such things say that senior Congress leaders have never looked as beaten as now. Helplessness is overmastering them.



It is not for this writer, who usually stays away from writing on party politics, to suggest what to do. But if the Congress party is losing its political nerve and verve on critical security issues such as J and K and Maoism, then it becomes imperative to report the facts at a minimum. What is apparent is that the Congress has to get back to politics. This arrangement of Manmohan Singh at the head of a technocratic government is simply disastrous. Be assured, India is indestructible. It will overcome anything. But in her anxiety to make Rahul Gandhi prime minister, Sonia Gandhi risks having the Congress party become irrelevant for and expendable in the country.