Her hapless children, the dreaded fourth generation of their dynasty, if one does not count Motilal Nehru, have no talent for politics, and only work at it part-time. West Bengal Panchayat Polls: Congress candidate's father shot as fresh violence rocks Murshidabad Cong, AAP spar on first Opposition unity meet in Patna, next confab in cooler climes of Shimla But Sonia Gandhi, a Roman Catholic, is too old and tired to respond to: ‘Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n’, to quote John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Almost powerless these days, she is under criminal investigation for past sins of alleged money laundering and many other offences, now coming back to haunt her.Ĭan this be the superannuated head of the grand old party? Why has she been allowed to continue at the helm so much after her effective years? The fortunes of the Congress have never been at a lower ebb. Her able political aides of many years have died, leaving her to operate with second-rate talent and on her own acumen. The present leadership of the Congress hinges on the judgement of an ailing and lonely senior citizen, cloistered like Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, in her large compound in New Delhi. If only Charles I had realised that, he might not have been the only British king to be beheaded in the Tower. It is like King Charles I invoking Divine Right in the face of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Parliamentary Privilege’, after Cromwell won the civil war, leading the republican and puritan Roundheads against the royalist Cavaliers. Running a political party on auto-pilot and remembrances of past glory obviously does not work.
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