The Congress social gathering is a wrecked ship. It is now not sinking. It has sunk, past retrieval. Nationally, the Gandhi-monopolised Congress has change into irrelevant and redundant. It is now not a succesful equipment which may even decently combat Lok Sabha polls, depart alone win them. Although there are some pockets within the nation the place Congress holds energy, it’s in fixed worry of shedding out on them. Intense factionalism, nepotism, corruption and lack of an astute chief are a few of the many issues which plague the Congress social gathering. Going ahead, the Congress’ fortunes are darkish.[PC:IndiaToday]Such is the dilemma confronted by the Congress that regional events appear to have outgrown it and are placing up a greater entrance in opposition to the present hegemon of Indian politics – which is the BJP. In a real nightmare for the Congress, the grand previous social gathering of India was not invited to a gathering held by NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and political has-been Yashwant Sinha. Invitations have been despatched to Kapil Sibal, Vivek Tankha, and Manish Tiwari. However, two of them reportedly declined the invite, in keeping with Moneycontrol, whereas one other was not within the nationwide capital. Notably, all of those three leaders are a part of the ‘G-23’ dissident group of the Congress.The opposition entrance which Sharad Pawar is making an attempt to construct allegedly with the assistance of Prashant Kishor won’t have the Congress, and can naturally be an even bigger challenger to the BJP in 2024 than the Congress. What this implies is that Rahul Gandhi’s goals of turning into Prime Minister are set to stay simply that – goals. As a lot as Sonia Gandhi needs to see her son change into prime minister, events from the opposition camp itself are making life depressing for the Gandhis and no matter stays of the Congress.Read extra: Three years earlier than the subsequent common elections, Sharad Pawar is busy making a rag-tag alliance of opposition leadersRahul Gandhi’s finest shot at turning into prime minister is now previously. In 2014, had the Congress received – Rahul Gandhi would have been prime minister. For argument’s sake, allow us to say Rahul Gandhi stood an opportunity even in 2019. But shifting ahead, there is no such thing as a approach the opposition is trusting Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to steer them into victory in opposition to the BJP. Rahul Gandhi got here of age, and politically, has expired.Rahul Gandhi is now not the face of the opposition in India. At most, the person is a social media star who survives on the mercy of bots. The opposition realises that if they’re to tackle Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi have to be saved so far as attainable from the electoral battlefield. It isn’t any shock, due to this fact, that Sharad Pawar ignored the Congress whereas calling for a gathering of anti-BJP forces – in attainable preparation of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Sharad Pawar’s desperation to construct a 3rd entrance may additionally stem from the truth that his money-minting manufacturing unit, the cooperative banks of Maharashtra and their functioning has now come beneath the supervision of RBI, which has pressured Pawar to search out avenues to fund his political survival.