RAJMOHAN GANDHI TO THE RESCUE

If you look at any Congress leader’s Twitter post recently you will see a retweet of a recent article penned by Rajmohan Gandhi in defence of Rahul Gandhi. It’s interesting because in the article he takes on not a BJP IT cell troll, but someone who is known to lean more towards the left of centre than the right. Rajmohan Gandhi takes issue with historian Ramchandra Guha’s take on Rahul Gandhi, where the latter had argued why he thought Rahul should not be positioned as the Congress alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It’s interesting because it has been a while since a cogent defence of Rahul has been made (for reasons that perhaps the Congress leader is as much to be blamed as the media), but Gandhi does make a strong attempt at doing so in a spirit which brings back some sense of a debate on social media, which is normally riddled with cheap pot-shots on both sides. Such as the recent comments about Home Minister Amit Shah’s hospitalisation, or more recently jokes about the basement car park of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s Gurgaon apartment being flooded by the recent rains. Surely when neither the Covid nor the economic crisis is over, there are far more important issues to be discussed than either of the above two. As for the leadership crisis in Congress, that remains a perennial whipping horse, for journalists and trolls alike. And, as mentioned earlier, a chunk of the blame for the latter lies with the Congress itself.