An unsteady ship and no Captain
The Hindu
The Gandhis have opened up one more battlefront in Punjab even as the Congress struggles to hold on to other States
The in Punjab was a harebrained idea of the Gandhi siblings. Mr. Singh — war veteran, scion of the Patiala royal family, and a Congress war horse who led the party to victory — was ignominiously booted out by the Congress high command despite being credited with stopping in Punjab the saffron wave of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that swept the nation after Narendra Modi rode to power at the Centre.
The sacking of Mr. Singh was a supreme irony. The legitimately elected leader was ousted by the Congress high command comprising Sonia Gandhi, an interim ad hoc president of the party; Rahul Gandhi, who abruptly resigned as president without putting in place any succession plan but continues to be de facto president intervening and interfering at will; and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was for long fluttering in the wings but has been anointed as in-charge in Uttar Pradesh to oversee the elections.