Only Congress minus Gandhi Family can challenge BJP
What tactics will the Opposition parties use against the Bharatiya Janata
Party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election? How will they try to stop the BJP
from getting a second consecutive term? The post-poll alliance stitched together by the Congress with the
Janata Dal (Secular) allowed for the
swearing-in of JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy as Chief Minister in Karnataka. Former
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is
getting on very well with Mayawati.
Anyway, the coming together of the Congress and the BSP was set much earlier. An
SP-BSP-Congress-RLD alliance is
being speculated in Uttar Pradesh. Thus
the Opposition parties elsewhere have found a way to make the most of any
anti-BJP sentiment.
But the real test for a Congress-led Opposition is to generate an agreed
policy programme that will have the support of all the disparate groups. These parties have an antipathy to the BJP,
while others have allied with the BJP in the past. In many cases, electoral rivalry, and not ideological dissimilitude
with the BJP, is the reason for fighting it.
Congress should drop its big brother role as it is headed by immature and
less experienced leader like Rahul Gandhi and be prepared to accept secondary
role in large states with a more senior and matured leaders like Shared Pawar,
Mamata, Mayawati, Mulayam and others. A mixture of regional parties and Congress, if they agree on a common
agenda against BJP, might be accepted during 2019 Parliament Election. But this
reminds the print media, television media and Indian People those days of Deve
Gowda and Gujral government and UPA I and UPA II wherein the growth of country
in all fields went 25 years back economy was immobile and standstill, corruption
flourished in geometrical ratio.
Indeed now economy is progressing not leaps and bounds but step by step and
there is certainly less corruption. A viable alternative for BJP is not a bunch
of regional parties but Congress Party alone should revive itself all over
India by freeing themselves from Gandhi family. The Congress Party should
realize that though they may have all India presence their influence is minimal.
One could only liken the alliance to a sack of sour berries that would
all run away in various directions once unbundled. Any trivial trigger can be
its undoing. People know this and would not vote for an unstable patch-work of
'colourful' political parties that are constantly at each other's throat and
are only interested in amassing wealth through corruption. For the very first
time in over a decade and half we have had five years of clean governance, most
especially after a decade of unusually humongous and blatant display of
malfeasance all the way from the PMO that included many of the cabinet
ministers. People do not want to go back to those levels and know what would be
in store if this medley of muddled parties is allowed to regain governance. Any
number of articles, op-eds, or edits would not change this ground reality. One
is indeed amused at the flagrant spectacle to convert defeat into victory in
Karnataka and extrapolate it to general elections.
Political parties work for their political gains. Whether BJP wins again
in 2019 or Congress-led front or any third front is emerging. One thing is
clear, our country is facing severe leadership crisis. What we need today is
visionary leaders who will guide citizens towards growth and development. Other
countries like Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia etc., all
have tremendously progressed today. But where is India? In spite of the fact,
we enjoy all potentials, still we are far behind. At least, we can say, we did
not progress up to the optimum level. Just look into the contribution of these
countries into international GDP and what is our share? If India has to grow
then every single citizen should start working without least bothering about
political trends.
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