7 reasons why Sonia Gandhi failed the Congress

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has often been held responsible for the party’s dismal performance in the past three years. It started with the UPA’s loss in the 2014 general elections, but rather than blaming Rahul, one should blame his mother, Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the condition of the Grand Old Party of India. While one cannot deny that Sonia united warring factions and brought them together to bring Congress back to power, her role today goes unevaluated.

There are seven reasons that can attribute Sonia Gandhi’s style of governance, which not only lost her public support, but also corroded the party structure to a level where Congress is on the verge of becoming irrelevant as a national player opposed to BJP.

1. The team of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi as the driving force of the party lost its novelty in the second term of the UPA. What originally looked as a division of work and renunciation later came to be viewed as ‘power without responsibility.’ People began looking at Manmohan Singh as a helpless person, who was at the beck and call of 10 Janpath. The general view was that Singh was also ‘keeping the seat …read more