The Credibility of the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is growing. The party leaders say that the government’s sudden demonetization drive, which has shoved India into an intense cash crunch, has given Mr Gandhi some moxie after leading the Congress into a series of defeats in state elections.
But they also concede that if Mr Gandhi has emerged as the show-runner of the anti-government protests, it is partly because of the absence of his mother and Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi, who has been too unwell to preside over any of the Congress Parliamentary Party meetings of MPs.
Since last several years the Congress has been clamouring for Rahul to take the party’s top job; the last resolution demanding this was cleared just weeks ago. For a party not just comfortable with but wedded to the idea of dynastic leadership, his promotion is no more complicated than a family decision that will be accepted whenever it is taken.
But it can take some heart from the fact that other parties seem more comfortable now with doing business with Rahul Gandhi.This could be the right time for Rahul to get elevated to the congress top post.
The notes ban appears to have enabled Rahul Gandhi to bank some acceptance, even if somewhat reluctant, from as many as 15 other parties, some of them headed by leaders with far meatier political chops.
Mamata Banerjee, for example, who once dismissed the 46-year-old Congress Vice President as a political dilettante, describing him as “a cuckoo who appears only in springtime.”
Lets hope the failure of the BJP Government and its leader Modi will be rightly en-cashed by the Congress party .
