CONGRESS PARTY URGENTLY NEEDS INTRA PARTY DEMOCRACY

There is some very needy, sagacious,timely and plain advice to the Congress Party.The oldest Democratic Party of the country needs to become democratic from within rather than be labeled a party of sycophants. These observations are in line with the actual observations made by most grass root workers of this party albeit in low tones and in murmurs . This is a very timely and needy warning given because if the party aspires to install the youth icon Mr Rahul Gandi as the next PM after the next elections than it needs to start becoming truly democratic in right earnest.
Nominations prevails in the set ups where the party bosses do not have confidence in the intra party democratic institutions, grass root and middle level leadership. In such set ups the hanger on and chamcha giri ruins the entrails of the edifice before the party realizes but than it is too late. Or it prevails in the parties whose party leadership is hugely popular where again the leadership becomes almost dictator like which is against all sorts of democratic values and norms .
It is for Mrs. Sonia Gandhi to decide which way she wants to react whether to nominate or get the state office bearers elected. Her image has grown in the eyes of aam aadmi when she spurned the PM’s job offered to her on platter by the party. Mind you in such sycophantic cultures certain positives are also there like the movement the party boss says elect the leader and office bearers and send the list to me that is also taken as a diktat.
For Congress party to abandon the basic sycophantic culture is easier said/ written than done because it will very difficult for the party to apply and adopt the intra party democracy. This is so because a culture like sycophancy settles itself in a political party over a period of time and spreads its tentacles far and wide to make a network . Due to this network the party leadership is surrounded by sycophantic beneficiaries who have gained immensely from this culture all along . The movement the party becomes strong democratically intrinsically these sycophants who are precariously placed in the party hierarchy normally come tumbling down or are exposed as root less leaders. It will be interesting to watch if the party leadership bites the bullet of true democracy or not.