Open Magazine – August 06, 2019

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hat do you

say about the

entitled lead-

ership of the

country’s old-

est political party except that

they seem to have a tendency to

perennially shoot themselves

in the foot? In May, when he

finally decided to quit as party

president, Rahul Gandhi seemed

overwhelmed by defeat, disillu-

sionment and bewilderment.

The ground has been shifting on

the socio-political front, calibrat-

ing public sentiment closer to the

Right, plunging the party into a

grave crisis after its decimation

at the hustings. The news from

the states was no better on Gan-

dhi’s watch. Its boat had sailed

in Goa, with MLAs abandoning

W

Illustration by

Saurabh Singh