After the Maharashtra and Haryana defeats the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi and the Vice-President, Rahul Gandhi declared that they accept the results of the elections with humility. Very nice, but not very comforting.
The Congress has been on the downslide long before the Lok Sabha elections, but the people who mattered never had the courage or the will to introspect and take remedial steps. The alarm bells had been there for many years but no one was ready to listen. The climax – or anti-climax? – was the shattering defeat at the Lok Sabha polls where the Congress was practically decimated all over India in such a way that it could not even secure 10% of the seats and claim with dignity to be the rightful Opposition Party in the Parliament, was a clarion call, but again the same stoic acceptance but no thorough introspection.
After that it has continued to lose most of the bye-elections and now the humiliating defeat in Maharashtra and Haryana where it could not even secure the second place. Is the Congress going to accept all the electoral results just with humility? It will surely not work.
It is now high time that the Congress Party starts having a sincere introspection on why these constant shocking debacles.
If the Congress is sincerely interested in saving the Party, it has to find leaders who work with people and show some results. It has to leave aside theatrics and platitudes and search for merits.
There is still time for salvation to the Congress Party. There are still many, many people in India who would like to see the Congress Party back on the saddle. But a sincere introspection from those in charge of the Party itself is needed. No one wants to see the repeat show of the corruption, inefficiency and specially the unashamed rule of a Dynasty which has only one-point programme.
Finally if the Congress party does not opt for introspection there will be no need of a Modi or a Amit Shah to liberate India of Congress rule, but the Congress itself will do the job, but…God save us from one party rule!
