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15 May, 11 tweets, 2 min read

India is a democratic country. Are we a mature and fully functional democracy? We are not.
Whether our political parties are democratic. Absolutely not. It is notional to comply with rules.
Congress has a partial internal democracy but more dictated by leaders & their groups.
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How internal democracy in Congress was eroded and corroded is a long story but it lost its strength with the dilution of democracy within.

Most of the leaders, media blamed it on the ‘Dynasty’. It is far from true. Gandhis including Indira staunchly believed in democracy.
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Call it charisma, sacrifices or brand value, the Gandhi family had a hold on the masses and it weakened with the rise of individualism and group culture.

The syndicate leaders in their greed for power divided the Congress party creating their own groups with Congress cadres.
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Indira as a mass leader could rejuvenate, repair and reconstruct the Congress party in many states where it lost its roots.
She won both external & internal war. But before she could stabilise, the combined forces of various opportunistic groups misguided people to defeat her.
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Being a mass leader alone is not always enough to win elections. They require organisational support to reach out and communicate with the masses.
Indira was charismatic & had the trust of the people. She was not a great communicator, though she had clarity, sharpness of mind.
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Media, intelligentsia and opinion-makers also played a role in building perception against Indira.
The educated elites felt how a ‘dynasty’ without proven administrative experience and merits could lead them.
It was taken as a challenge as it hurt their intelligence and egos.
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This educated intelligentsia did not forgive the masses for electing ‘dynastic’ leaders.
But they combined with the masses to elect Modi when he fooled people with all his lies and propaganda.
In a way, they punished themselves and also the people and the country.
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How these ‘theoreticians’ imagined that administrative experience is the only or prime qualification to lead the country or a state.
Modi was 3 times Chief Minister. How his mismanagement of state was missed by them. So Modi with that expertise is now mismanaging the country.
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The entire country and its people are now in ICU along with its democracy.
Where was this educated intelligentsia when every institution, bureaucrats were strangled and choked?
Why were they silent when every leader and state was purchased and democracy was dying.
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Mass leaders and democracy are essential for the people and the country.
The supremacies of individuals, groups or authoritarianism will be a death knell for democracy.
If leaders, groups, parties, people do not fight it out democracy will be pushed into Ganga dead or alive.
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The above are excerpts of my new blog post: 'Need for mass leaders - Democracy is in ICU'

Website link: wp.me/p8Fpl7-hw
(444 words - 2 minutes read)

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@ganesan312

17 May

Some of the congress leaders are sure that Rahul cannot lead Congress to power.

We are always certain about what others cannot do. We are not so sure or ignore what we cannot do.
Now let us ask some questions.

Who is the alternative to Rahul, Gandhi family to lead Congress?
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In many states, they only have a mere presence with diehard cadres and supporters. Congress has to undertake the job to revive, strengthen it all over the country. They cannot do it without organisational reconstruction and resurrection. There is no one visible except Rahul.
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The group culture has taken roots and will not go away so easily. These groups within led to the destruction of the party.

Congress cannot survive anymore unless these groups are eliminated.
A new leader can only emerge with their support and cannot neutralise these groups.
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@ganesan312

8 May

Every political party is checkmated in a way. No one comes out with flying colours. That also includes Mamata while the left front in Kerala is least affected.

The organisational weakness of Congress shows up again in results.

BJP has a lot to worry about its performance.
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They are using or misusing the entire machinery at full throttle. Still, results are not promising but portend a threat to their dominance.

Even if there is a hint of Modi losing his grip, the suppressed, threatened independent institutions would start asserting their rights.
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The pandemic threat of the second wave of the ‘Modi/ Shah/ RSS virus’ is receding. The Law of diminishing returns has set in.

The extent to which they put in efforts using everything at their command has not produced any visible result in Tamilnadu, Kerala or even Puducherry.
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@ganesan312

6 May

The confusion, fear, threat in the minds of the people about what the future holds is all-pervading. That is the political reality after the recent elections.

The national parties Congress, BJP are worst affected. The victory of regional parties is only a deceptive euphoria.
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How much of Mamata’s victory causes jubilation and to what extent it is a pyrrhic victory in abnormal circumstances with main opponents are authoritarian in their own way is difficult to quantify.

But BJP forced such polarisation, hatred among people. Mamata had to respond.
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The aftereffects of such a full-fledged war using every ammunition available with them Modi, Shah, BJP, RSS managed to drive divisions deeper.

But who is going to provide the healing touch? We are not having Gandhiji, Ashoka around to bring normalcy. Can Mamata accomplish it?
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@ganesan312

5 May

The need of the hour is to unite all those who are opposed to Modi, Shah and RSS to defeat their strategy of dividing people, spreading hatred to impose their ideology.

Most of the opposition parties groups are united by their secular, democratic vein but divided by egos.
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What is the purpose of having or forming separate parties or groups when there is no logical reason except for personal domination, the progress of their leaders or groups?

When they are bound by equality and justice where is the justification to impose one’s superiority?
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The left parties and few other regional parties have different roots and ideology though most of them are bound by secularism and equality.

Most of the other parties have roots in Congress ideology. Why should they stand divided and pull each other down benefitting BJP?
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@ganesan312

2 May

Congress lost its cadres to various group leaders. Their erosion continued to this day despite some wins in between due to other factors.

The organisation was losing its base or connectivity with the base even when they had support and image with the masses.
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Congress should be restored back to the masses, a place where it has roots. It should be taken out of the grip of group leaders and group culture.
Democracy is the strength of the Congress party. Where is it now? It was throttled by the group leaders to retain their supremacy.
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The democratic process would have thrown up mass leaders who remain connected to the people. They naturally would have become a threat to group leaders and their linkage to the group itself. So democratic elections within were replaced more often by ad hoc measures.
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@ganesan312

1 May

‘The nature of Congress is lost and the depth, understanding of Gandhi, Nehru is not there’ stated Rahul.

Where the mass-based movement driven by Congress party and its leaders went on wrong track losing its mass base and more controlled by groups of leaders or power brokers?
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It is evident that Congress has always been led by a conglomerate or mixture rather than a fusion of leaders of different ideas from left to right and were guided by democratic culture, principles, philosophies of Congress.

But they were united in addressing public concerns.
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The domination of groups within started happening possibly post-Nehru-Shastri period. There were instances even before of leaders with identical, similar views grouping together.

But post-Shastri period the tussle became power-centric in the garb of principles, policies.
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