JAIRAM RAMESH,

Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka and senior Congress leader, has diagnosed his party’s problems as an inability to redefine itself in the face of the challenge to its existence posed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. “They think differently, they act differently,” Ramesh said and demanded more flexibility from the Congress. But is that possible if the party won’t look beyond one family for its leaders? That is a question Ramesh, like the Congress generally, chooses not to address.