The Congress's committee meeting has begun at the Talkatora stadium in New Delhi. Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt who is at the venue says when the flavour of the season is Aam Aadmi politics, it will be prudent for the Congress not to make Rahul Gandhi it's prime ministerial candidate.

When the mood in the country is against dynastic politics, Congress seems to have gone on the defensive. Let's see what Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who is scheduled to speak, says in a few minutes.

After 1998 when she entered politics, Sonia has seen many historic moments. Under her leadership, the Congress came to power in 2004, which stunned the world, not just India.

Then in 2009,  her brand of welfare-oriented politics won them a second term.

Now, when her party is likely to lose badly in the upcoming LS polls, she will have to speak about what lies in store for the future for the party, whose workers are feeling dejected.

There remains no doubt that BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi is dominating the minds of Congress's small-time workers at the AICC session, but make no mistake that like many of the ministers and even Congress party office bearers, these workers have not lost their balance in their understanding of Indian politics.

A full time Congress leader and advocate Dr Patel from Bhind, Madhya Pradesh told Rediff.com, "Modi kuch  nahin hota hamre liye. Har chunav main Congress harti hai ya, Congress jitti hai! Madame, yeh Hindustan hai.

( Modi means nothing to us. In every election it's a vote for the Congress or against the Congress. This is India, Madame!" )