Letter to BS: For Congress party's survival, Gandhi family needs to give up

The servility of the party seniors to one family is pathetic

Apropos your editorial “Grand old implosion” (March 12), whether Jyotiraditya Scindia’s resignation from the Congress was a principled stand or not, it is certainly a wake-up call for the party. After its rout in the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, followed by the resignation of its president, Rahul Gandhi — owning moral re­s­ponsibility — one expected the party to reinvent itself by inducting young, untainted faces in le­adership positions. But what one witnessed was the familiar sight of seniors, long used to enjoying power, going back to Sonia Gandhi and be­seeching her to accept the party’s interim presidentship, though its