harbans wrote:What if INC expel RG for 3 months, recall the ordinance after a cabinet meeting. They say look we are not that dynastic, we are democratic. And spokesmen will say look RG spoke from the heart, we too are a democratic and not dynastic party. After 3 months will be back in INC or maybe even later after elections. All blame on MMS..possibly all planned.
This may not be too unlikely.
What is the uppermost priority in the minds of the INC? As of now, I don't think it is winning the 2014 elections. They know how much public anger their scams and economic mismanagement have evoked, and in addition to that there is the Modi effect. So for 2014, their main priority is to prevent the formation of a reasonably stable NDA govt led by Narendra Modi... at all costs, even if they do not form a government themselves.
But an even bigger priority in the long term is to make sure their little treasure, their hallmark of electability, Raul Maino, doesn't get tainted by defeat in any way. If defeat comes to the INC in 2014 it must NEVER be seen as Raul Maino's (or any other Maino's) doing. The Mainos must emerge totally untarnished and blameless no matter what the fate of the INC.
Thus, it must NEVER come to a Raul vs. Modi contest in which Raul loses. Since VP Singh's defeat of Rajiv, it has been an article of faith with the INC that no Die Nasty member must ever be defeated, or be seen as responsible for an INC electoral defeat on his/her watch. Every effort has been made to dissociate Raul from the UP defeat, for example. A repeat of UP on the national stage simply cannot be countenanced.
So it may very well be that Raul will be made a sort of crucifixion-figure who abstains from leading INC into a disastrous 2014 poll defeat on some spurious moral grounds. After the defeat he can be begged for forgiveness/redemption by the INC cadres, and return like a hero dredging the sands of public sympathy. Paid media will work overtime spinning his return into a "Modi Effect" type of story. The unstable govt. which takes effect in 2014 will be gone by 2016, and Brave New Raul Maino will sweep the INC to victory once again. (By that time, NaMo will be stale news as just another cantankerous BJP leader of opposition.)