When LTTE struck as Rajiv Gandhi was trying to make a political comeback
When LTTE struck as Rajiv Gandhi was trying to make a political comeback
Rajiv Gandhi had some kind of premonition about his impending end. In her book The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi , journalist Neena Gopal remembers asking him saying, Have you noticed how every time any South Asian leader of any import rises to a position of power or is about to achieve something for himself or his country, he is cut down, attacked, killed.
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Dhanu (circled), moments before Rajiv Gandhi s assassination in Sriperumbudur (File photo)
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Rasheed Kidwai
Senior Journalist and Author
A moment of reckoning has come for Rahul Gandhi. The former AICC chief has to take a call whether he wishes to return as the 87th president of the grand old party or allow a non-Gandhi to head the Congress.
The party’s interim chief, Sonia Gandhi, unwilling to continue particularly after another debacle in the recent Assembly polls in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, has decided to accept the Madhusudan Devram Mistry report that had been gathering dust since January this year. Mistry heads the Congress panel on internal party elections, known as the Central Election Authority (CEA). Though the Covid-19 crisis has been cited to defer these elections, the Gandhis’ game plan seems to be to buy more time.
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updated: May 09 2021, 08:19 ist
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore s iconic lines from Gitanjali come to mind looking at the irony of the latest bout of political violence that has erupted in West Bengal.
As many as 16 people were killed in violence within five days after the result of Assembly elections, in which names of Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahansa were invoked, as both the TMC and the BJP vied with each other to claim the legacy of Bengal s icons.
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395 REFRESHING APPROACH: The party has been supportive of Rahul Gandhiâs way of engaging the NDA govt on handling the pandemic, but he remains a reluctant leader. PTI
Rasheed Kidwai
Senior Journalist and Author
Just as speculation was rife over a possible split in the grand old party around May 2 when the Assembly results of four states and one UT will be announced, the Congress seems joining ranks at all levels of the party hierarchy and accepting Rahul Gandhi as its leader.
The reliance on Rahul is coming amid a rather grim scenario which has little to do with politics. The enormity of Covid-19 pandemic or its second brutal wave has shaken everyone to the core. The government of the day may not say it officially but the health emergency has put the Indian nation at war. As former Army chief General Ved Prakash Malik said rather dishearteningly in his April 18 tweet, “Our nation is at war. 1,338 Indians died due to the pandemic yesterday (1,182 the day before), more th
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