Is there no person to challenge Rahul in Congress
There are number of regional parties whose leadership is essentially vested with the family such as DMK in Tamil Nadu, Samajwadi party in UP and others . In such parties, no one can claim to become the top leader unless he would belong to the particular family. The case study of Lalu Prasad and his family controlling the party is one of the worst examples of family ownership of political party.
But, one would think that Congress party which is supposed to be a national party will have different yardsticks to elect the leader, instead of wife succeeding the husband and later on her son succeeding her.
More than blaming the family, one should blame the so called leaders in the congress party who accept dynastic leadership with least sense of self respect.
Dr. Manmohan Singh , former Prime Minister for two terms bending low before Rahul claiming his dynastic succession as legitimate conclusively proves that members of the congress party are spineless and are only capable of bending low to a family.
One would recall Morarji Desai contesting against Indira Gandhi for the Prime Minister’s position. He lost the contest as even then many congress men were blind worshippers of the family. At that time, Rajaji hailed Morarji Desai for attempting to stop dictatorship in the party.
Is there not one known face left in the congress party who thinks that he could be better than Rahul to function as President of the party?
The developing contempt for the family controlled congress party amongst the people now is becoming evident.
N.S.Venkataraman more