INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS-IS IT AN ECLIPSE? It is easy to write off the oldest national party, The Indian National Congress, after the humiliating defeat it suffered in the last general elections. Memory is short. When the Janta Party under the leadership of Morarji Desai , no one imagined that INC will ever come back. Indira Gandhi was hounted and exposed by the Shaw Commission; but she made a come back in Chikamangalur . Why? Let us examine some aspects of this party. It is the only party with all India presence. All other parties are regional and controlled by a single dictator, like the Shivsena, ADMK, Thrinamool Congress etc. They have no economic programme. Even the BJP follows the Congress policy. INC has a central stand, neither left nor right. When the eupphorea over Modi wave ebbs away, People will come back to INC. Its greatest flaw is dictatorship of the family. Already, anti-Nehru movement is picking up momentum in different regions. Rahul blesses this trend. The belief that it was corruption that killed the INC may be naïve. Indians are used to corruption from time immemorial. Is Jayalalitha not corrupt? We all know that bureaucrats , business class and ministers form a cartel which decides. Without money, the machinery will not move. Ordinary people want control over prices . During emergency under Indira Gandhi, prices came down. For the first time, DA of Central Government employees came down. Wait and watch ; keep the fingers crossed.