End of Gandhi dynasty? India opposition leader quits Congress Party leadership

Rahul Gandhi, the son, grandson and great-grandson of Indian prime ministers publishing a letter of resignation from the leadership of the opposition Congress party. The 49-year old failed to energize the base, lost his family seat in Uttar Pradesh state in recent elections, and couldn't compete with incumbent Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi. We've talked about Modi's landslide, but how about Rahul's rout?

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Could it be the beginning of the end of family dynasties in politics? Rahul Gandhi, the son, grandson and great-grandson of Indian prime ministers publishing a letter of resignation from the leadership of the opposition Congress party. The 49-year old failed to energize the base, lost his family seat in Uttar Pradesh state in recent elections, and couldn't compete with incumbent Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi. We've talked about Modi's landslide, but how about Rahul's rout?

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[vimaldob]

This is fake Gandhi.. not related to Mahatma Gandhi...

[Lakshmikant]

Lady journalist in panel is totally disappointed due failure of her master's. I.e. Gandhi family. She is leaving in 70s and 90s. No connection with modern India.

[jivasrocks]

This kid !! Thats the problem with sections of the Indian media who call a 50 odd year old 'a kid'!!

[ramamurthyrajagopalan]

On two previous occasions the family dynasty was temporarily ended!But the remote was always with the madam!

[spasarma]

India's biggest hurdle for development is congress party and this Gandhi dynasty.

[santhoshnarasimhan]

Rahul Gandi is appointed as Prime Minister of the state of Kerala (at Capital Wayanad), India.

[mmurthy]

This lady is very ill informed about India. Perhaps you should invite someone with better knowledge.

[minashah]

49 years old Rahul Gandhi is as clever as my 4.9years old grandson. Congratulations

[balasubramaniansanjeevi]

That guy Sinha from London and for that matter everyone (excepting probably the French expert in the panel) don't seem to know anything about India and are just parroting some secondary or even tertiary gossip and hearsay. His statement chiding Rajiv Kumar considering that the statistics from the Government's own Statistic department is unreliable, attributing motives to the former, is naive and in fact, Rajiv Kumar is spot on. It has nothing to do with the reliability of the Government department but it has everything to do with the methodology of sampling which has been in vogue all these years, which has become totally un-representative thanks the complete change in character as well as the size of the Indian economy. The mismatch is accentuated enormously. If you know the sampling methodology, the unemployment, and employment survey is carried out in a small manageable segment of the economy say 15% and for the rest of the 85%, it is extrapolated based on past relationship & correlation with the size of that segment. There is a very low representation of the huge service sectors which now employs the maximum people and the survey gets the figures for that sector through extrapolation of past ratio. As for the unemployment survey, they ask respondents "are they looking for jobs" and count all those saying yes. The fact that they are currently gainfully engaged is ignored. Most of the people say yes. But 90% of those who say yes are either employed in the informal sector not counted by the survey. Many are carrying out small service business/trade thanks to millions of people ( about 5 0 million plus) who have availed of small loans generously given by the Modi government to encourage self-employment. That is what Rajiv Kumar was trying to convey. Also, the great paper put out by Arvind Subramanian - the Economic Advisor who left and after leaving wrote that the economic growth numbers are overstated and instead of 7% the growth is somewhat 4.5% is another big hoax. He has cheated in applying a correlation-regression analysis which even a high school student would be shy to do. The less said the better. I wish the French channel get some informed people for such debate as it is spreading a wrong message on India.

[AdityaSingh-llld]

The French analyst had better pulse of congress party than both the Indian origin ppl on panel! Both of them were lying through their teeth

[ashn]

End of Gandhi Dynasty? YES it is. I don't think anyone can come forward to take up responsibilities and once Gandhi family member is not President of congress then Congress party will fragments in several pieces. Every leader will form his/her Congress Party naming with suffix of initial of their names.

[northern]

At 17'39
No,
India has history of politicians who has no family support & he became INDIA level politicians.

[cafex]

Rightly said... Well researched... His resignation is only to revamp the Congress party with the gandhi family doing the back seat driving... The gandhi family will never ever quit politics... And they have flatly got the message that this generation will not tolerate dynasty politics....

[gabbarngh]

hopefully Gandhi family is kicked out of india.

[cassino]

Indra Gandhi was Soviets best catch infact as per KGB India was their biggest success . 40% of our parliamentary representatives were in KGB/ Soviet pocket. The Soviets/KGB supported Dictatorship and political Dynasties as they didn't had to worry about paying repeatedly to the person in Charge . The Gandhi Dynasty and the Congress were illegitimately supported by the Soviet Union and can be termed as a Classic example of meddling in Foreign Countries Domestic election and selection of top most leadership. The Soviets/KGB supported Indra Gandhi during the Emergency period, illegally got our constituation modified and Operation Blue star was an Soviet idea . In return of this loyalty towards the Gandhis India was forced to buy 3rd grade Soviet military equipment . Both the Soviets and Gandhis were scratching each others back . India has suffered 50 yrs of political subversion by the hands of the Soviets . There are numerous cases where government employees were honeytraped in Soviet Union and were forced to sign deal favouring the Soviets. assassination of PM Lal Bahadur Shastri . India with Gandhi is not a true democracy. Gandhi's are modern kings ... 5 generation in politics, that's enough.

[digitalanalyst]

Sister is far more duffer than Rahul Gandhi.

[nandukm]

Congress probably the most communal party in INdia. Hindu is fundamentally secular in every way

[cassino]

Rahul Gandhi is capable using Rectal thermometry Orally .

[akshaymore]

I switched off the debate when they compared with Pakistan that Nawaz Sharif is coming back and Imran Khan has no political background.😂😂

[shantiemaharaj]

Bartender modi’s hands r clean he is not a dishonest man he is committed to end d congress dna corruption and stashing I dias monies in foreign banks whist d masses suffer in dis day and age so dis trumping of secular is a loosing point for d Gandhi’s congress