Letters to the Editor — October 26, 2021

State of the CongressA number of articles and letters have been published on the subject of the Indian National Congress in this daily. It goes without saying that ever since Indira Gandhi establishe

A number of articles and letters have been published on the subject of the Indian National Congress in this daily. It goes without saying that ever since Indira Gandhi established her supremacy in the Congress, it ceased to be a democratic outfit and virtually became her family’s fiefdom except for the brief interregnum during the prime ministership of P.V. Narasimha Rao whom the party had virtually ‘disowned and discarded’. It has become virtually impossible to bring out the party from such a predicament as Congresspersons are mentally incapable of accepting any leader other than anyone from the Nehru-Gandhi family. If the Congress led by great men like Mahatma Gandhi won freedom for the country, the same party cannot even dare to think of securing independence from the dynasty. The Congress is unlikely to have a renaissance as long as the Gandhis consider that they are the party and the party is theirs.

Malippara, Kothamangalam, Kerala