Congress is developing serious memory loss | The Indian Express

Congress is developing serious memory loss | The Indian Express

Written by Meghnad Desai |Updated: May 12, 2019 8:36:40 am

Meghnad Desai loves to cook, watch and write about old Bollywood movies and shuttles between London, Delhi and Goa. He pursues controversies on economics, history and anything else which catches his attention. He is also a British parliamentarian sitting in the House of Lords. He has written over 25 books, over 200 articles in learned journals and hundreds of newspaper columns in UK and India

Congress is developing serious memory loss

If Congress wants to survive, it will have to forget its past and invent itself a future.

It is a free country and the Congress is free to write its own terminal history.

How old is the Congress party? It could be 134 years since 1885, or we could begin with the breakaway party Indira Gandhi founded in 1969 — the Congress (R) — from the official party called the Congress (O). In December 1977, Indira resigned her primary membership of the Congress (R) and founded the Congress (I).