Why is congress on wane: better question

[veeru_rocks]

Till advent of Janta Party and Morarji Desai there was virtual single party rule. Even after Janta Party's elevation there was bipolar polity. So when and how regional parties started becoming relevant. me thinks single most reason was total lack of intra-party democracy in Congress and atocratic streak of Indira Gandhi created all these regional satraps. She could never tolerate any popular leader inside her own party. Some of them died ( allegedly killed like Lalit Narayan Mishra of Bihar) in dubious circumstances when they were aboout overshadow Indira Gandhi.. So when these congressmen figured whatever they do there is a ceiling beyond which they can;t aspire to go they broke off from the parent party. These satraps gave voice to the aspirations of local people. Every reaosn wants their leader to be elevated to the top post if he she shows competence but that was not possible under Nehru family thumb. APeople started voting for regional parties because they saw their leader being treated with utmost disrespect with so caleld high-command raja-rani of nehru family. So if today you are anguished over ever-increasing frtunes of regiona parties then blame congress and autocratic congressi culture bereft of any intra-party democracy. MAnmohan Singh ecclaimedthese regional parties are weakening cntre. Well that actually was the idea in first place when Gandhiji asked for gram-swaraj it was to be total decentralization of polity. Instead what we got is more centralization than what we had during British. So Manmohan can cry in pain over his helplessness in catapulting his mentor a to the PM post single-handedly but unless Manmohan keeps his family adulation streak intact regional parties are here to stay. not everyone can have fawning worshipping streak towards a family people do have self-respect. If that mean voting for likes of Mayatai or Mulayam or even laloo so be it. So my mesage to congressi change your ways bring some semblance of intra-party democracy start respecting leaders other than nehru family naturally polity will turn bipolar. Till that happens due to your sin even BJP has to suffer due to regional satrap's influence. Regional parties can't be wished away you willhave to earn that through proper democratization of the party and please take your tongue off Sonia's slipper. It's embarrassing, doesn;t behoome a PM of a nation of 1 billion people.

[coffee_rules]

Till 1998 it was - Cong(I) v/s the rest. After that it has been BJP v/s the rest. All parties are riding the secular v/s communal mudda and I think the more other parties go on that plank.. BJP will win hands down. BJP went outside of the secular mudda and got burnt in 2004.