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| A stitch in time saves nine | | | | A stitch in time saves nine. The Centre ruling party has done well in promptly scotching the move for projecting Rahul Gandhi as the next Prime Minister of the country, as suggested by a senior Congress leader and HRD Minister Arjun Singh and later endorsed by another senior party leader, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Any snowballing of the move had the potential to create confusion and division within the Congress party as well as between the Congress party and some of its coalition partners at the national level. The statement by the Congress Spokesperson that there is no vacancy for the post of Prime Minister and dubbing the move as a sycophancy, which is not to the liking of either the party President Sonia Gandhi or her son and young party General Secretary, Rahul Gandhi. The move had an element of mischief, which could be interpreted as lack of confidence in the incumbent Prime Minister of the Congress led UPA government, Manmohan Singh. Any premature suggestion in this regard had also the danger of projecting Rahul Gandhi in a bad shape, with the charge of having lust for power as well as an attempt at perpetuating the dynastic rule in the country. The move was neither friendly to the Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi nor in the interest of Congress party. Any hasty action or even a move to project young Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate in the next elections could only harm the prospects of Congress as well as undermine and compromise the position of Sonia Gandhi and the young Rahul. Grooming Rahul Gandhi for future and providing him the necessary training and more so exposing him to the ground realities of Indian politics and the nation, is a matter of opinion and can be said to have some weight but projecting him as the next Prime Minister of the country at this premature stage, when Rahul has joined the active politics only few years ago and taken over as the party General Secretary only a few months ago could lead to many questions being raised over the haste in the matter. Taking over of the post of Prime Minister by late Rajiv Gandhi, who too was raw in politics at that time, was in entirely different circumstances. This decision had to be taken to fill the vacuum created by the assassination of his mother and country's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The atmosphere in the country surcharge with deep sympathy for the martyred leader stood Rajiv Gandhi in good stead to take over the command without any hassle and controversy and later to win the Lok Sabha elections with thumping majority. In fact some senior leaders in the Congress who are at heart not reconciled to be working under Manmohan Singh, whom they consider to be much junior in politics and who knowing well that they stand no chance to themselves climb the height and gain the position which they at heart aspire for, can be expected to be entertaining the hope to rule in proxy, by projecting the raw and immature political novice Rajiv Gandhi. |
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