Neera Chandhoke, former professor of political science at Delhi University, has been a keen follower of Indian politics for a long time. She says it should take a leaf out of the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests and say it is fighting the second freedom movement.
In a podcast interview with Sidharth Bhatia, Chandhoke said that the handling of the Punjab crisis was ‘bad politics and it has become a mess’.
It was important that the party leadership holds elections, which it could still win, because the ‘process itself was important’.
‘The BJP has the RSS, the Congress has nothing,’ she said. The Congress should come up with a Common Minimum Programme with other parties, but unfortunately regional parties have become ‘Moffusil’ in their approach, ‘rarely seeing beyond their nose’, she added.