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| A party which can’t tackle weak NC can’t capture the lost space | | Rahul To Play Pro-Active Role | |
STARK REALITY
Rustam
JAMMU, July 19: Yesterday, UPA chairperson and AICC president Sonia Gandhi, who is ruling the roost without any accountability whatsoever, told reporters that she couldn’t take decision on behalf of her son and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi and that “it is for Rahul to take decision”. Today, Rahul took decision and he was quoted as saying that “he will now play a more pro-active role in the party and the government”. The media in-charge of the Congress party Janardhan Diwedi confirmed the statement without further elaborating it. He only said, “Rahul will play the role as the second most important leader of the party after Sonia Gandhi”. There was nothing significant in the statement which was made by Diwedi. Everyone in India and outside knows that it is Sonia and her son Rahul who have been controlling the Congress party and the UPA government since May 2004; who have been playing all the shots in the party and the government; and who are exercise absolute power without any accountability and responsibility.
The today’s announcement that Rahul will play more pro-active role in the organization and government has been ridiculed by the principal opposition party BJP. Ridiculing the Rahul’s decision, party spokesperson and Member Rajya Sabha Balbir Punj told TIMES NOW that Rahul, like Sonia Gandhi, has already been playing an active role in the party; that both the mother and the son have been exercising power without accountability and that the only difference now would be that Rahul would be held directly accountable and responsible. Rahul is likely to be elevated in the party and inducted in the Union Council of Ministers. There are persons in the party like Salman Khurshid, Jairam Ramesh, Digvijay Singh, S M Krishna and so on who have been requesting Rahul Gandhi to play a larger role in the country. They even want him to take over as Prime Minister and lead the party in the next general elections which could take place anytime from now, instead of 2014.
Will Rahul’s elevation in the party and induction in the government help the party regain the lost ground or win the next general elections? The general view is that he cannot. Objective and discerning political observers and commentators say in one voice that Rahul has failed as a politician and that he has nothing whatever in his political scheme of things which could induce the electorate to turn towards the Congress. They say the Congress is being considered by the people as the most corrupt, insensitive and anti-people organization in the country. They say that Rahul has been functioning as AICC general secretary since 2007, but has failed to take off. They also say that Rahul put in all his efforts in Bihar, but the Congress could not win even half a dozen assembly seats. His hectic electioneering in Bihar during the last general elections also did not help the Congress party. The Bihar electorate made him and the Congress party bite dust. They also refer to the dismal performance of the Congress party in the just-held assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh saying Rahul alone addressed nearly 250 election rallies but his party could not win even 30 seats in the 403-member house. The Congress came fourth, despite the fact that Rahul Gandhi spent almost a couple of years in UP strengthening the organization. Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Wadra also campaigned extensively in the UP assembly elections and the result was that even the electorate of Rai Bareli, Amethi, Sultanpur and Pratapgarh rejected outright the Congress candidates. These are the areas considered pocket boroughs of the Gandhi family.
These political commentators, in addition, refer to the dismal performance of the Congress party in civic elections held recently in Mumbai, UP, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and in the bi-elections held across the country, including Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat and West Bengal. Everywhere the Congress suffered a humiliating defeat. The worst defeat it suffered was in UP and Madhya Pradesh where the Congress was decimated by the electorate. The electorate in both the states as well as in Delhi, Mumbai, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka voted overwhelmingly in favour BJP and its allies Akali Dal and Shiv Sena.
This only serves to prove that the Congress party in general and Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in particular have lost their sheen and appeal and that the people of the country now no more trust them. The reasons are obvious. A party that cannot tackle even such a weak and discredited outfit as the National Conference (NC) just cannot think in terms of regain the lost ground. The NC, which has been sharing power with the Congress both in Jammu & Kashmir and at the centre, has not left any stone unturned to undermine the importance of Rahul Gandhi. The memory of what NC additional general secretary and Farooq Abdullah’s brother and Chief Omar Abdullah’s uncle Mustafa Kamaal said about Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party last year is still fresh to be forgotten. He had said, “Rahul cannot interfere in the affairs of Jammu & Kashmir”. Kamaal has not changed a bit. He continues to blast the Congress and the Congress high command, besides New Delhi. The nature of the Congress’s plight in the state could be determined from the fact that the NC readership doesn’t recognize any Congress leader, even JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz.
The moral of the story is that Rahul would become more unpopular after joining the Union Council of Ministers because he and Sonia Gandhi would be held directly responsible for every bad thing that happens in the country.
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