The beginning of the End for Congress Party of India

If the recent four state assembly elections are any indication then that means Congress party is headed for a complete burial. The perception of Monumental corruption & Mal-governance are not the only reasons for people’s anger, it is also because of the harassment it meted out to ordinary public (especially urban electorate) on compulsory Aadhar registration, complex bureaucratic hurdles it created in its name and reduction of subsidized cooking cylinders available per year, these are to name a few in addition to price rise and inflation. At least these are the reasons why I would vote against Congress given a chance.

It could have been a heavy jolt for congress which was conveniently banking on Minority & Secular-Communal farce, because all the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe concentrated areas voted against congress in Delhi. During the campaign congress did not offer any tangible ideas or solutions on the most begging issues such as price rise and inflation instead it limited itself to parrot the propaganda on Food Security Bill, Right to Education and Right Information Act, this proves that Congress ran out of ideas and is a victim of limited imagination.

The urban voter has shown Congress Party its rightful place in Delhi and also all voters in other three states. Its arrogance was so enormous that it always felt that it can get away with diverting people’s attention by bringing in secular-communal card. Congress wants this country to remain poor forever so that it can dole out few sops and freebies to earn their votes and then power. Hence you could see a standard practice of doling out free schemes on the last year of every tenure. Food Security Bill is an example of such a pattern. After inheriting a stable economy in 2004 from BJP and being in power for 9 years suddenly it woke up a fine morning and decided to go with Food security bill.

Instead of spending its energies on countering the conditions which are forcing the ordinary citizen to endure a sub-standard life under its regime, it chose to concentrate on Narendra Modi and has been working overtime to fix him on something or the other. What Congress has failed to realize was that the platform to challenge Narendra Modi was Gujarat assembly elections in which too Congress squarely lost. Now it must do some justice for which it came to power. The hollow rhetoric of Secularism is not going to save the Congress any more.

Few talked about dual power centers in Congress and also passed a judgment that it is working well. In my opinion it is a completely misplaced argument, there is no diarchy or dual power centers. There is only one power center – Presidentship of congress. And that is why you could hardly see Prime Minister reacting to anything if not for his party’s complete rout in four state assembly elections, after all it is his government’s policies and workings which affects to an extent voter’s decision in choosing a party during elections. But only Sonia Gandhi and her son chose to react on the results. Doesn’t that mean that for all that PM is doing by occupying the highest post he is simply not accountable?

It is important to acknowledge what Kejriwal and Aam Admi party has done in Delhi but the only worry is it should not become yet another leftist party ending up embracing “Distorting India” as its only goal. It is an era of Knowledge Voter and it is not easy to fool him anymore on some abstract ideas & ideologies.

Punditry says that BJP trouncing Congress in 2014 parliamentary elections is almost a sealed matter. But if Congress wants to secure a distant second position it should seriously think about being honest first.