India’s most powerful CMs

This has been a week that has confirmed what I have felt for years: the Congress is and remains India’s longest running political soap opera. Which other political party has seen so many twists and turns, so much drama over the decades: Congress persons will tell you that this proves that the party has true ‘internal democracy’ but purely looking at it from the outside, it seems as if the party is a messy collection of a range of individuals of conflicting ambitions held together by the ‘high command’ of the Nehru-Gandhi family.