This refers to the edit “No more status quo” (March 7). It is time the Congress realised that it can no longer win the hearts of voters by simply announcing largesse sitting in Delhi. For one, the ground-level delivery mechanism, the bureaucracy, remains corrupt and unreformed. Hence the benefits do not reach people. Second, the party’s grass-roots organisations that could have helped it keep a tab on the delivery mechanism is in neglect. Too much is sought to be controlled centrally by the high command that remains inaccessible for ordinary party worker as well as most local leaders, thereby making them ineffective. That is probably the reason the common man has started looking to regional parties that have a strong network of workers. That explains the resounding success of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and BJP in Goa. Even Shiv Sena’s reasonable success in the recent the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections despite its unimpressive record in civic management can be attributed to its superior organisation.
Kishor Kulkarni Mumbai
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