Posts Tagged “rahul gandhi”
Rahul missed a trick in his reply to Singapore audience
by Ritwik on March 18, 2018
Rahul Gandhi should remember that when he speaks publicly, he does so as the leader of the Congress party. While it is crucial to appeal to the fence-sitter, it should virtually never be at the cost of demotivating one’s core, articulate, political network. He made that mistake in Singapore.
Continue ReadingSo Near Yet So Far in Gujarat: Lack of Local Leaders and Agenda Setting Campaign Cost Congress A Historic Win
by Ritwik on December 18, 2017
Despite losing Gujarat, the Congress looks set for revival. Strong local leaders and an agenda setting campaign can turn the tide in 2019.
Continue ReadingSuspending Uber’s Services is Politically a Good Decision
by Ritwik on December 8, 2014
When a woman who takes a premium cab, ,she believes she is cordoning herself off from the unsafe conditions which prevail. When the company is caught sleeping at the wheel, not having performed preliminary checks, then people do want to see it punished.
Continue ReadingThe cost of 28 seats – analysis of the Congress performance in UP
by Ritwik on March 7, 2012
Rahul Gandhi, and his expensive foreign trained image consultants, tried to project Congress as a party of change, of hope, of decisive action in UP. I leave it to the wisdom of the reader to decide whether any of the above is consistent with the image that was sought to be projected. It appears to me that the actions of the party in the last couple of years have rather been populist, oppurtunistic and given to the worst kind of sectarian and votebank politics.
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