INDIA SUMMARIZED

Rahul Gandhi should remain outside the Cabinet. He will not be able to bring anything of value to this government in the time it has left. Even if it had longer than 17 months, Gandhi would serve it better by doing what he does, grassroots party work. What exactly does that mean? It means making sure that the organisation is in the hands of capable men and women at the level of districts, of which India has 640, and making sure these people are fired up. This means travelling in the states constantly and it isn’t a part time job. Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram once said that a party could only be expanded in an election. What he meant by that was the opposite of what is obvious. It was the work you put in during the 58 months when there was no election which would germinate and sprout in the 2 months of the campaign. The plan of the Nehru-Gandhi family has been thus far to work on the Congress party and let professionals like Manmohan Singh run policy so far as that was p...