Will Priyanka pass the test?
Appointing his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as a general secretary of the
party was a calculating move by Congress president Rahul Gandhi. The BJP lost no time in decrying the
move as another instance of dynastic politics. Her formal induction into
politics may have been prompted by the
ill-health of her mother, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her being high
on charisma quotient, her Nehru-Gandhi lineage, her being able to command
a stage presence and her resemblance
to her grandmother Indira Gandhi.
In many ways, the nomination is an admission of the party’s over-reliance
on the family. During the Manmohan Singh years, the Congress was able to
counter, to an extent at least, the perception that it revolved around the
dynasty. BJP will surely start harping on her husband’s
allegedly murky land dealings. What should engage the Congress is not what the
BJP may say about Priyanka, but what she can say and do for it.
The thing is any right minded and sensible person can never support
dynasty. India needs development. There is no harm promoting Hindutva but but
do it without sacrificing the secular structure of the country.
Congress' elevation of Priyanka is to counter BSP SP alliance in UP. The
legacy of Indira Gandhi is being employed as a political tool for political
sustenance. That the untested Priyanka may be a crowd puller to garner votes is
yet to see.
Across the spectrum, it is only the communists and BJP who have some
semblance of inner party meritocracy. Indians will continue to be pawns of
dynastic power and money brokers unless we express a collective aspirational
desire to remove them away from all power structures. Priyanka's entry merely
provides another platform for the corrupt power broker structure across
regional and congress parties to latch on to people's weaknesses. The congress
and all corrupt regional family parties must continue to be rejected by the
electorate for India to prosper
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