How Decisions Are Taken in the Congress
In fact, this is just one instance of how decisions are taken in the Congress: there is no sense of participation in the party when it comes to deciding on policy matters, party strategy or indeed, any subject on which a collective view should be taken. Ms Gandhi, though Interim President, and reportedly upset at the state of affairs in the party, no longer has much of a say. It is now Mr Gandhi and his coterie of largely inept Congressmen who are calling the shots.
The party’s spokespersons have sought to portray them as an ‘untalented’ and ‘ungrateful’ lot. But those who wrote to Ms Gandhi seeking sweeping changes in the Congress defy categorisation. They span generations; they belong to different regions of the country, and come from disparate backgrounds. Mr Azad, Mr Sharma, Mukul Wasnik and Manish Tewari grew into their present positions, starting out in the Youth Congress.
Others such as Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor were…