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• Modi may win, but BJP's campaign diminished us

  Broadcast On May 19, 2019

  ... stand tall and walk boldly. In fact, you could almost say it was intended to make us cower and look for cover behind the 56-inch chest of the incumbent Prime Minister. In comparison, Rahul Gandhi’s was ...

• Gandhis: The Congress' perpetual dilemma

  Broadcast On June 16, 2019

  ... only Punjab and little Pondicherry will be left. And finally, since May the 25th, when Rahul Gandhi said he wanted to resign, Congress doesn’t really have a leader. And, worse, no one knows what’s being ...

• We need a strong Leader of Opposition

  Broadcast On June 23, 2019

  ... to even though the law says it is. Perhaps this is because it doesn’t want anyone else to have the post if Rahul Gandhi doesn’t take it. Yet Congress could have strengthened its claim by presenting itself ...

• The other leadership crisis in the Congress

  Broadcast On September 1, 2019

  Perhaps because attention has sharply focussed on Rahul Gandhi’s resignation and the two month long reluctance of the Congress party to accept he has truly made up his mind, nowhere near enough has been ...

• An inside take on a road map for the Congress

  Broadcast On March 1, 2020

  ... of the party and suggesting what needs to be done. Some have spoken before, like Shashi Tharoor and Abhishek Singhvi. Others have darkly hinted at why the party hasn’t appointed a successor to Rahul Gandhi. ...

• The weight of words, spoken and unspoken

  Broadcast On June 28, 2020

  ... the Prime Minister’s Galwan statement, Rahul Gandhi tweeted: “Narendra Modi is actually Surender Modi”. It made me cringe. This was school-boyish rather than statesman-like. At fourteen I would have been ...

• The Congress needs to look at its own history

  Broadcast On July 19, 2020

  ... Gandhi at 40 became our youngest prime minister. In fact, there’s one more example. In 2017 a 47-year old Rahul Gandhi became Congress president. So, for four generations Nehru-Gandhis have become Congress ...

• It's not just what you say, but how you say it

  Broadcast On August 2, 2020

  ... it. I’m prepared to bet the latter is often more important.   Two separate developments made me think of this last week. The first was Rahul Gandhi’s blog that hiding the truth from the Indian people ...

• THE HUMOUR AND FLAIR OF POLITICAL PUT-DOWNS

  Broadcast On March 13, 2022

  ... defect’; ‘He’s honest in the most odious sense of the word’; ‘He made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice’. Do you think I should gift Rahul Gandhi a copy of this book?   However, it wasn’t ...

• PLACING PRINCIPLES AHEAD OF POLITICAL POSITIONS

  Broadcast On April 3, 2022

  ... in Lucknow and Mathura but won from Balrampur? If that was the case could this comment also have been hinting at Rahul Gandhi, who in 2019 lost Amethi but won in Wayanad? Was this a way of suggesting Gandhi ...