He tried all. He worked hard. He
covered the vast distances and he tried to map the whole country.
Had a brilliant team of highly
educated professionals.
Debuted with his forming a
coalition-led government in India
where his family was having the undisputed central role.
Started taking centrestage in
party-politics and the governance affairs when his party’s government was doing
well.
And had the time to play on it
and play it big as his party’s government continued to be in power for the next
five years.
Comes from a family that has
ruled the country most of its independent history that he tried to weave in his
discourses to further his political career.
Yet, it didn’t work, the
prevailing political circumstances say.
The moves were not customized.
The moves were not focused. The resources, bountiful, were not efficiently
managed.
The context did not read the
contemporary making the presentation lacking in the elements needed to create
the mass connect when the mass-base was slipping to a historic erosion.
And it was not esoteric. It was
there for everyone to see. And everyone saw it, except the Congress party
strategists and Rahul Gandhi and his Team Rahul.
And they have to own the blame
honestly if they have to find the ‘whys’ of it and if they have to see the
‘what next’ in the clear context.
And the traditional rounds of
hollow efforts of restructuring and refocusing, as has been so far after the
May 16 Lok Sabha election results, are not going to work.
The historic low needs some real,
unorthodox approach and it has to begin from Rahul Gandhi.
If Rahul Gandhi has to stage a
comeback he needs to transform his political persona and style of politics.
If he has to stage a comeback, he
needs to begin with his political persona first as the recently held
parliamentary polls were a decisive mandate against him in Narendra Modi Vs
Rahul Gandhi fight.
He needs to change how he looks
and sounds politically. He needs to work on the primary level of his
communication interface first, being direct and responsive.
