Tensions within the party have been allowed to simmer for too long and mounting electoral defeats have rarely been audited with honesty to hold non-performers to account.
The BJP, comfortably in power in more than a dozen states, is perpetually in election mode, but the Congress often behaves like a transient electoral entity. The crisis in Punjab had been in the making for over three years as anger against Mr Singh and anti-incumbency against his government rose. But the Gandhis did little.
On the contrary, their decision to push through the appointment of former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, a bitter critic of Mr Singh who had quit the BJP to join the Congress just five years back, as the party's state unit chief made the crisis worse. Similar friction has been simmering between factional heads in the other two states - Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh - where the Congress is currently in power but repeated assurances of a prompt resolution have shown no results.
Adding to the party's woes is its leadership vacuum. Sonia Gandhi has been the interim chief since Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post after the party's defeat in Each successive poll rout for the Congress has emboldened critics of the Gandhis, both within the party and outside.
The Gandhis and a section of their confidantes are now mulling over inducting political strategist Prashant Kishor, who has scripted several electoral wins in recent years, into the party. But the idea is reportedly opposed by other leaders. Congress sources say the younger Gandhis are in a confrontational mood - not just against the BJP but also against the naysayers within the party. Sonia Gandhi's strength was that she was a consensus builder and would never act in haste. While there is nothing wrong with the Gandhis wanting to run the party more firmly, the MP added, "it's also essential that they find the right people for the job… this has, so far, not happened and if you see people promoted by the brother-sister duo as in-charges Malaria Mukt Bharat.
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