This is what someone wrote to me--that Congress should support Sonia Gandhi for the Prime Minister's post. There is no doubt that Sonia took the Congress party to power and is responsible for pulling it out of its squabbles and morass.
Congress is often accused of being a Party controlled by an individual or a family. The people who say this do not understand the true nature of power, of how it is exercised, or how it devolves, of the kind of people who look for power. They are mostly outsiders to the game. Therefore their opinion matters little to the cognoscenti.
But look around you--- at Lalu, Nitish, Vasundhara, Naveen, Mamta, Modi, et al. Do you see an image that is different in its exercise of power? Then why does the Congress alone come in for flak? Does the public see a strong man in Modi ----does he not betray the same attributes that we give to `one man' shows?
Maybe we have not matured as a democracy to really throw up leadership of another sort--and this alone will keep us from heading into chaos. So hail to pyramidical structures---for the time being at least.
Congress is often accused of being a Party controlled by an individual or a family. The people who say this do not understand the true nature of power, of how it is exercised, or how it devolves, of the kind of people who look for power. They are mostly outsiders to the game. Therefore their opinion matters little to the cognoscenti.
But look around you--- at Lalu, Nitish, Vasundhara, Naveen, Mamta, Modi, et al. Do you see an image that is different in its exercise of power? Then why does the Congress alone come in for flak? Does the public see a strong man in Modi ----does he not betray the same attributes that we give to `one man' shows?
Maybe we have not matured as a democracy to really throw up leadership of another sort--and this alone will keep us from heading into chaos. So hail to pyramidical structures---for the time being at least.
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