The Congress rout in the states
of Rajasthan, Delhi ,Madhya Pradesh and its inability to win in Chhattisgarh,
despite having everything in its favour, can be dealt in two ways by the party.
The easier and the most likely to be followed method is to blame it on the
regional leaders, regional issues and the regional voters.
The second way of looking at
things, which is unlikely to happen, is to admit that the fault lies at the
top, within the boundaries of Delhi Darbar from where the party functions and
directs the state leaders.
Leaders like Charan Das Mahant,
Ajit Jogi in Chhattisgarh and Jyotiraditya Scindia and Digvijay Singh in Madhya
Pradesh, as was accepted from the loyal soldiers, have accepted that the party
lost because of them. Any insinuation to
party vice president Rahul Gandhi being anyway involved in the defeat was
nipped at the bud.
But is this the case? Shouldn't
the accountability be fixed on Rahul, for the decimation that the Congress
suffered in these states? If not him, then
who?
