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Rahul Gandhi
by Ravi Shankar on Jan 23, 2006 03:21 PM

It is absurd to think that Rahul is the answer for Congress. It has never been possible for a single person to uplift the electoral fortunes of a party. Had it been the case, popular EMS Namboodiripad, Harkishen Sing Surjit and Jyothi Basu would have conerted India into a communist State.It was not Atal Bihari Bajpayee alone who made BJP a National party. People in congress are used to a type of feudalism to blindly accept congress as the family inheritance of Nehru family.

There had been able leaders in congress who could have been brought up to give congress a national representaion e.g. Karunakaran, Pawar, Mdhavrav Scindia and A.K.Antony.Instead, congress always preferred someone from Nehru family to be the boss.It also clearly indicates thier non-recognition of fellow regional leaders, no matter how able he was.

It is the approach that any party makes to the general electorate that earns it winning edge over other parties. Notwithstanding the so called secular parties labelling them as non-secular, BJP has been projecting honestly thier pro-Hindu approach and it has been accepted by the voters in North-Indian States.

This is a way to uplift a party image.



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