Thread by @ssudhirkumar

A day after @MaliniP was announced as chairperson of @the_hindu -there was an Op-Ed piece titled "Should the Gandhis disengage from the Congress?"

First thought is why is an obvious question being discussed! But then the format of the piece is interesting. It's a Q&A. 1/n

The Question "Should the Gandhis disengage from the Congress?" was not posed to independent analysts. Was not posed to editors. Was not posed to leaders of different parties.

It was posed to 2 Congressmen! What objectivity do you then expect from them?

Let's look at Qs posed by the @the_hindu . "Is the Nehru Gandhi dynasty more popular in the South than the North"

How can anyone with a modicum of analytical ability ask that Q? Rajeev Gowda's answer - Congress more popular west of line joining Kashmir-Kanyakumari than east 3/n

Another Q: "Is Rahul Gandhi a reluctant inheritor of family legacy? Do you think he is a reluctant politician in the sense that he does not remain consistently engaged with a political battle?"

Reluctant inheritor? Does he in anyway seem reluctant?

Let's look at their responses to various Qs:

"Not at all. The family has a tremendous role to play in leading the Congress Party forward"

"The tremendous sympathy and love and affection that the family enjoys is beyond what the critics can do."

thehindu.com/todays-paper/t…

More gems from Kumar Ketkar and Rajeev Gowda in @the_hindu today:

"Electoral results cannot be the only mark of efficiency."

"It is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is more obsessed with the so-called ‘dynasty’; I would prefer to use the word ‘family’."