Gandhis In "Cuckoo Land"? | 'Hot Mic' with Nidhi Razdan

Today, the Gandhi family represents entitlement, alienating a more aspirational voter. If Congress really wants to reinvent itself, it needs to do something drastic. Now.

Hi, This is Hot Mic and I'm Nidhi Razdan.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has spoken out on the recent election debacle of the party, describing the results as shocking and painful. She has also said that she has received many suggestions on how to strengthen the party and that she was working on many of them. But is the Congress really doing anything apart from just calling for introspection? It's been nearly four weeks since the results of the assembly polls in five states. Polls that saw the Congress routed from Punjab, marking its worst performance ever in UP and losing Uttarakhand and Goa despite anti-incumbency against the BJP.

The rumblings within the Congress exploded immediately after the results with senior leader Kapil Sibal, the first to openly come out and say it - the Gandhis need to go. The leadership is in cuckoo land, Sibal had said. Well, he was promptly hit by accusations of speaking the language of the RSS and the BJP by Gandhi family loyalists in the party. And there are plenty of them. Since then, rebel leaders have gone virtually underground and all the murmurs of forcing a drastic change have taken a back seat. It only reveals that the party is back to status quo.