Media%u2019s compassion made it easy for the party to distance her from the humiliating defeat. But now that the very %u2018merchant of death%u2019 whom she despised and asked the voters of Gujarat to throw out has won, she does owe an answer to her party and to the nation.
Yet, she keeps mum and instead employs her Alsatians to bark at others, hiding herself behind the iron gates of 10 Janpath protected by ZPlus security. While, in Delhi, her party keeps her name out, many Gujarat Congress leaders seem to have told the media, of course in anonymity, that her %u2018merchant of death%u2019 remark has cost the party some 30 seats.
Finally poor Hariprasad Solanki, Gujarat Congress party president, has become the %u2018bakra%u2019 %u2013 the sacrificial goat. He was forced to go to the party office in Delhi and own up the defeat as his(!) so that Sonia remains the victor. Imagine the party had won Gujarat. Would Hariprasad be allowed to share photo with the victor Sonia? After she made it emphatically known that she is the real key and Manmohan Singh is the duplicate one, this Congress sycophancy has become an accepted media discipline. Result: All good things happening for the party and in the government are unfailingly credited to her. Whether it is employment guarantee or rural development, it is all conceded as her agenda.
