Rahul Gandhi has been unable to clean the Augean stable that\'s the Congress

Rahul Gandhi has been unable to clean the Augean stable that's the Congress

Neither Rahul, nor his sister Priyanka Gandhi have shown a political temperament. The party's vote share remained virtually stagnant between 2014 and 2019. Now it stares at a possible decline

Bharat Bhushan 

Bharat Bhushan

Rahul Gandhi’s four page statement on Twitter explaining why he has resigned as Congress party president shows that he is unable to intervene decisively in party affairs. Most of the party general secretaries and state unit presidents, nominated by him, have continued to stay on as if nothing had happened.

It is difficult to predict whether the resignations of Jyotiraditya Scindia and Milind Deora will prod the Old Guard into quitting. Before the general elections, Rahul Gandhi had successfully reinvented his persona. He was being seen as a pugilist who could take on the ...

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First Published: Mon, July 08 2019. 10:07 IST