21 March 2014, 07:30 PM IST
The pithy cliche about the Bourbons who learned nothing and forgot nothing could fit Congress Lok Sabha ticket distribution in Delhi to a T.
Like the French royals who's obstinate refusal to keep in step with the times led to their overthrow in the French Revolution, Congress defied the public mood by re-nominating all seven sitting MPs.
No comment would be needed had there been no talk about the fate of the current MPs. But official speculation had suggested that Congress could axe a few and consider new faces.
Why new faces? Because Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was keen on signaling that the party had learned its lessons after corruption and inflation ensured its rout in Delhi last year.
But when Congress re-nominated Ramesh Kumar (brother of Sajjan Kumar) and Mahabal Mishra on Thursday, it closed the door on an opportunity to tell voters that it is trying to change.
Congress's primaries ensured AICC media head Ajay Maken and former Delhi state chief JP Agarwal were re-nominated. But frankly neither deserved to be sacked, they are not sinners.
If Congress wanted to send a strong message that it cares about voter anger over graft, price rise and, above all, political arrogance, it would have begun by asking east Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit to step aside.
The buck for Congress's dismal show in the Delhi polls must stop with former CM Sheila Dikshit who's word was law in the party and who enjoyed the exceptional trust of both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul.
While Sheila Dikshit's posting to Kerala's Raj Bhawan was one way of easing her out of Delhi, denying a ticket to Sandeep Dikshit would have meant Congress is serious about responding to popular sentiment.
If Congress had really been ruthless, it would have denied a ticket to telecom minister Kapil Sibal too, in an expression of regret for the Manmohan Singh government's stubborn denial of a scam in 2G allocations.
But the axe instead hovered over Mahabal Mishra and Ramesh Kumar. This was self-defeating as neither make a satisfying martyr. Mishra is a rough and ready politician and Kumar is only a proxy for Sajjan Kumar.
In the end, Congress stuck to the path of least resistance. No problem in that, but raising hopes only to dash them. It seems Congress remains stuck in a time warp.
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