Election-results for Lok Sabha were on expected lines ever since Sonia Gandhi forced dynastic tradition in her party by making his politically-incapable son as Congress President. Evidently politics in parties with dynastic tradition is like a political industry where it is quite natural that owner of the political industry will hand over the party to his or her legal heir only irrespective of capability. Congress is not the only such party. There are many regional parties like Rashtriya Janta Dal RJD in Bihar where also less educated or even illiterate legal heirs of party-founder took charge of the party.
Sonia Gandhi could crown Rahul Gandhi as symbolic President of the party with all financial powers but creating a post of Working President to carry on actual political work in the party. Also she should have declared an acceptable intellectual as Prime Ministerial candidate from Congress. Though even such steps could not prevent BJP coming to power with landslide victory in the strong Modi-wave, yet any such hypothetical step from Sonia Gandhi could definitely provide country healthy roots of democratic form of governance with ideal two-party-system which could provide a platform in case of any anti-incumbency situation in future.
MADHU AGRAWAL