![]() The party has touched nadir and is likely to stay there unless a miracle is performed. That could well be as a party General Secretary in the new set-up. No poster in the interiors is complete without a paean to Priyanka. Priyanka already runs her mother''s Amethi affairs and in the last year has made sure she is among the quotable quotes. After most likely, to coincide with Priyanka''s advent into politics.Not that she has been very apolitical. When the axe shall come down is the only unknown - before the family gets down to a cosy winter vacation or after. Hitherto precious ones like Soni, who is already believed to have got an earful from an increasingly proactive Priyanka beti for misleading mom. So suddenly the Congress looks rather bedraggled and heads shall roll. Matriarch Sonia Gandhi is only just coming to terms with the fact that not only has her band of merry-makers misled her wholesomely about the party''s electoral prospects, it has also failed to educate her on the limitations of her own political appeal. It does.Meet the country''s oldest party, the kind where the word Gandhi sells so well, they have also appropriated the distinctly unrelated Mohandas Karamchand. "Priyanka." you offer in the vague hope that the noxious cloud of nicotine and negatives will lift with the magic word. You can cut him short there or let it go on. And who can win elections." The conversation is inevitably leading to one thing now. "We need more people who can knit the party back together. Everyone is a neta." On the large television screen, Ambika Soni coyly gives her best face to the camera and swears undying loyalty to her party president.The young Congressman grimaces. Looking deep into his half-filled glass of alcohol, he declares: "The problem with the Congress is that there are no workers. In another corner, a partyman, recently joined, sits dark and brooding, hungover, not a pretty sight. ![]() And somewhere, a Congressman is even now mumbling a prayer that Priyanka beti join politics soon and heft the party out from the quagmire it''s fast disappearing into. The busy buzz at a non-political social get-together ceases abruptly when the Gandhi scion walks in. Priyanka Vadra Gandhi It has for long been touted as the political debut of the decade. It has always worked for the Congress, why not now? So come New Year and 10 Janpath is expected to gift-wrap the biggest of them - Priyanka Vadra Gandhi ready to serve the party and nation. Doweshowbellyad=0 When life-saving elements are in short supply, pull out a Gandhi. ![]()
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