Rahul has claimed the moral high ground by playing true to his stated position that change must flow from the top. But can the Congress survive his bid to re-engineer its DNA?
On March 20, in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote a blog titled ‘Institutional respect and institutional contempt—two contrasting approaches’. Its central theme was a scathing attack on the Congress and its first family—the Gandhis. The gist of it was that the country’s institutions were the biggest casualty of the “dynastic politics” of the Congress and the 2014 election had made history with the people choosing the BJP in the spirit of ‘India First’ instead of ‘Family First’. It wasn’t the first time Modi was targeting the Gandhis. Indeed the attacks have been relentless, starting way back in 2013 when he was named the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. From calling him shehzada to naamdaar, Modi has not spared a single opportunity to highlight that Rahul Gandhi—till last week the Congress president—owed his political ascendancy solely to his lineage.
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