A car called Congress

The only way forward for Congress is to create something new. Not in the image of the glorious past like the Ambassador, but a brand new product looking at the future

Sonia Gandhi opened her Congress’s long-delayed “Chintan Shivir”,  or introspection huddle in Udaipur, with a call to reinvent the party. This leads us to four questions.

• Can the Congress, in its deepest trough for eight years now, ever be reinvented?

• If so, what will it take to bring about that transformation?

• How important is it to have a pan-national opposition party when many regional forces are rising to play the same role?

• Even so, must that pan-national party be only the Congress? Can it be a new alternative?

There is another way to restate these questions, particularly