Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Last card played to save family business' that was published in Newsband

Last card played to save family business

This is the first time that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be occupying any official post in All India Congress Committee. The Congress has appointed Priyanka as a general secretary of Uttar Pradesh East months before the Lok Sabha elections.

Priyanka has been a regular at Congress strategy headquarters at 15, Gurdwara Rakam Singh Road office. She has campaigned for her mother Sonia Gandhi and brother Rahul Gandhi in Rae Bareli and Amethi respectively in elections.

Speculations had been rife for a long time on Priyanka's political entry. Welcoming his sister into the party's leadership, Rahul Gandhi said that Congress was fighting a battle of ideologies in the coming elections and that the Congress party is not going to play on the back foot anywhere, it will play on the front foot.

Congress has no future if it sticks to communal preferences, vote bank politics, devisive policies, corruption etc. Three generations of general category lost sustenance due to misinterpreted secularism propagated by our veterans. Narendra Modi only could wipe the tears of poor misinterpreted as descendents of oppressors of dominant people glorified as descendents of 1000 years of untouchability. Narendra Modi will be remembered for the legislation made to address the woes of economically weaker sections. In all communities there are poor and rich. Poverty should be taken as index of deprivation. Rich can't be deprived, they can pursue the path of discharging their abilities, they can use money power to access platform. Narendra Modi could understand the flaws in our system, which those born with golden spoons can't.

Now this is perpetuation of Dynastic Politics or you can say "Raksha Bandhan Reversed" because now the sister comes to help the brother in distress. Rahul Gandhi would have done better to have not promoted his sibling to a crucial post in the party, but instead he should have elevated a Congress member unrelated to him. This action smacks of nepotism and further bolsters the charge that the Indian National Congress is an undemocratic and family-operated political entity. This move is not just bad - it is politically and ethically malodorous.

The motto of the Gandhis is ‘Keep it in the family’. Now they might make Robert Vadra head of finance ministry and train the little ones for next leader positions. Priyanka cannot be a threat to BJP but now Rahul Gandhi should realize that Priyanka can be a real threat to his leadership. Let us wait some more time and we will see what the role of Vadra will be. Dynastic politics goes on unabatingly. Meritorious abound when dynastic trends, minority preferences, quota promises are thriving.

Congress mukth Bharat will become a reality when a billion lotuses bloom as a challenge against lie proponents, quota mongers, greasing outfits and communal accessories. Change is in the air, the new development being a harbinger.

Congress could not afford to get less seats than the last elections. So it is a good strategy to select and appoint another family member. So every one can boast she has done a great job. The president is well within his rights to select any one and he has selected his sister. Perfectly understandable since his mother selected him even in an 'election' as the President. Now the last card has been played to save the family business. Congress is trying all tricks for election 2019.