Opinion | Congress At War With Itself: The Growing Revolt Against Rahul Gandhi

As senior leaders quit and dissent turns public, the Congress faces its gravest internal crisis yet, with Rahul Gandhi at the centre of the storm

The simmering unrest in the Congress appears to have finally erupted into a full-scale civil war, with more and more dissident voices which had hitherto refrained from speaking out in public in deference to old loyalties now openly expressing their frustration with the party leadership.

Their criticism is specifically directed at Rahul Gandhi and his sycophantic inner circle.

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Mani Shankar Aiyar’s frontal attack on Rahul and the party’s other senior leaders comes amid a virtual explosion of dissident voices and a drip-drip exodus of hitherto party loyalists- mostly to the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena.

Between them, they now boast some of the most well-known ex-Congressmen and women who left the so-called “grand old party" (GOP) frustrated with its direction under Rahul’s dysfunctional leadership- or rather lack of leadership.

Even as I write this, Assam Congress’s election committee chairperson, Bhupen Bora, has quit the party, ending his 32-year-long association with it to protect his “self-respect", as he put it. “I have quit the party for my own self-respect," he said, pointing out that he had devoted the prime years of his political life to the Congress. “I gave 32 years of my life to the Congress party," he said, underlining his long association and contributions at various levels of the organisation.

Bora, who also once served as the party’s state president,........

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