Following the humiliating debacle in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party president Rahul Gandhi has reportedly tendered his resignation as party chief in the Congress Working Committee (CWC). The grand old party managed just 52 seats. They ended up zero in 17 States and even Rahul Gandhi lost in Amethi, considered to be his family bastion. However, as well anticipated, he won in Wayanad with a huge margin for the known reasons.
Though Rahul is adamant on quitting his post after the elections that saw the NDA, led by the BJP, assuming office for the second time, several leaders in the party wanted him to reconsider his decision. Rahul offered to step down while the Congress Working Committee rejected it. They say that many do not realise during times of success that it is the very same family that fetched victories for the Congress. But Rahul Gandhi is determined that his family should distance itself from the party leadership.
All senior leaders of the party including his sister Priyanka Vadra has been impressing upon Rahul Gandhi not to resign. As a matter of fact, the entire apparatus of the Congress party has gone panicked since the day of Rahul's announcement as such leader feel the doom's day for Congress without the tag of Gandhi family. Interestingly, with shifting of Rahul's constituency to Waynand, South has become more vocal in support of Rahul that North.
Among allies in UPA, most of the leaders preferred silence over the issue restricting it to a family affair. Meanwhile, the DMK, the southern ally of the Congress, has come to the defence of Rahul. The DMK said he understood the difference in mindset between the southern and northern States. Rahul transcended. To be very precise, Rahul Gandhi reflected the thoughts (liberal ideological stand) of Jawaharlal Nehru. Rahul is the strong brick for building the fort of Congress and it is more strong than a mountain of sand, it said. Even Rajinikanth said Rahul should continue. Let's wait and see what he decides as it is the matter of taking moral high ground.
