Why Can’t The Congress Dump The Nehru-Gandhis, The Telegraph

In May 2014, General Elections were held in India as well as in the United Kingdom, the country whose electoral system we adopted as our own. In the UK, the Labour Party got 232 seats, twenty-four seats less than it had obtained in 2010. The Labour leader, Ed Milliband, resigned at once, owning responsibility for the defeat.

Meanwhile, in India, the Congress Party got 44 seats, more than one-hundred-and-fifty fewer than it had obtained in the previous elections. However, the main Congress lea...