AAP sweep endangers Congress

February 11, 2015 09:52

By now a veteran of successive electoral defeats, the Congress on Tuesday took comfort in the decimation of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi assembly elections, but the repeated demonstration that parties other the Congress can defeat the BJP is bad news for the grand old party.

The inability of the Congress to stem the slide since the 2013 winter round of Assembly elections is frustrating a section of leaders who have been murmuring against the clique that surrounds party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

Thinking of a non-Gandhi leadership is a total no-no but the Delhi results saw a sporadic burst of slogan-shouting for bringing in "Priyanka [Vadra] to save the Congress."

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