Congress is on back foot after IB report

Intelligence bureau has presented a report about possible Loksabha seats in general elections.
 

Arun Srivastava

The grand old party of country is on back foot after an assessment made by top internal probe agency ‘Intelligence bureau’(IB). In a report presented to government, agency assessed around 90 seats where the Congress could have possibilities of win. Going by the report party is now working hard on a plan which could provide it more than 100 seats in the general election of 2014. It is not only the report of IB but many ministers and their private staffs also accept about this humiliating fact in private conversation.

Change of plan

Drubbing of recent assembly elections proved that Congress plan to fight the election on the basis of Mahatma Gandhi Rural employment Guaranty Act (Mnrega), Food Security Act and Right to Information Act had not worked well. Seeing the writing on wall, Congress has changed its strategy to fight coming elections of Loksabha through the image of crusader against corruption.

Lokpal bill passed by the parliament recently provided the opportunity and Congress took no time to catch the chance. Under the direction of party think tank Rahul Gandhi was seen arguing for Lokpal though initially he was as against this Act as his deputies from party. The positive feeds back from different sections of society, especially through India Inc after the speech delivered by Rahaul in one of prominent business association of country has given impetus to top rank of the party. In this speech Congress vice president opened a frontal attack against corruptions and had got a grand applause from audience.

It is strange to see that a party which is being accused of plundering the coffer has been using the tools of fighting corruption as an apparatus to fight the battle of election. After Lokpal Act the Congress will now push the remaining six bills pending in Loksabha and Rajya Sabha and tagged as essential bills to curb the corruption by party. Congress has got feeds back from rank and file from ground that it is the corruption and corruption alone which has been hounding and bothering the common man in the country. Not only the lower and lower middle class but upper middle class has also effected by the corruption in every walk of life.

Main opposition BJP has been trying to in cash this issue after Common wealth game and 2g spectrum expose by the media. The recent reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India have crated a huge ripples and jolts in the conscious of AAM ADMI on the street. The party under the stewardship of its prime ministerial candidate for 2014 general election Narendra Modi put forth this issue on fore front through his rhetoric and innuendo style. Credit must go to his style of speech delivery through involvement of audience that pushes Congress to rewrite its plan to fight the rhetoric of Gujarat Chief minister. The way Modi has targeted first family of Congress leaves in quandary to many of party's followers who till recently think that Modi is no where in the race against Rahul Gandhi.  

Meanwhile another phenomenon has come in just concluded Delhi assembly election. A phenomenon popularly known as AAP has clinched the imagination of commoners and has sent jittery in all political parties. Both the Congress and BJP have been thinking to create a plan to counter the progress of AAP especially in urban population. Many parties who follow the path of feudal and traditional politics do not find any reasons to panic in their bastion. Cast and religion are their combination which always proved to be the wining formula for them. For regional parties real India lies far away from Delhi which constitute cosmopolitan type of voters and who were governed by the desire of urban amenities. All the regional parties recognized the reach of AAP to the voters in Delhi but they never take Arvind Kejriwal and his party as a potent force who could dethrone their parties from regional and state’s corridor of power.  

Amidst this entire one thing is sure to me that the Congress has very thin possibility to come again in power for third time in center.