CONGRESS PUTS ALLIES IN THEIR PLACE

Delhites thrive on politics. An evening gathering for them is very rarely to talk about culture. They all assume sitting in their drawing rooms while sipping wine, they can form or dissolve governments. At the moment the topic is the UPA-II’s performance in the last one year. The mutual agreement after heated arguments is that the Congress is the strongest political party and remains united under the Nehru-Gandhi leadership. Alarming is how some senior Congress men including some ministers have been freely giving opinions on the running of their colleague’s department. The intellectual technocrat our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, everyone feels is a firm believer of Mahatma Gandhi’s “Hear no evil, See no evil and Talk no evil”. The UPA President Sonia Gandhi has wisely chosen her advisors who are low key; honest to her and know the pulse of everything.
Delhites are in awe of the Congress at the moment as to how the high command has managed in a subtle mature manner to put their arrogant regional alliance partners in their places. What is pending? Is the long awaited A.I.C.C re-shuffle along with the Cabinet re-shuffle? Hopefully the Congress high command will keep in mind that egoistic ministers with loud mouths really don’t pay in the long run.