Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

Noted historian and intellectual Ramachandra Guha, who thinks out of the box, has now called for a massive change in Congress leadership, suggesting that the party can only regain its prominence by projecting Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar as the face of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

Guha is known for his sharp comments on the Congress party. At the 10th-anniversary celebrations of his book India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy, said India’s oldest political party was without any leader and that there is little chance of its revival under the present dispensation. He thinks that there is no possibility of Congress to get back into power unless Congress has a new leader. According to him, Nitish Kumar is a genuine leader and if Congress gives him a chance to lead the UPA, it might have a future. He thinks that like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar too is a leader without a “family burden” but unlike Modi, he is not a “megalomaniac.” He believes that leaders become more authoritative when there is single party dominance in a democratic country like India. He thinks that India is in its 70th year of Independence and have failed in emulating a stable two party module of western democracy.

By Mahak