way. A noble person, high above many around him, however, was enormously misunderstood because of series of error of judgement. He was not cut out to tackle the jackals around him as his mother was. He had failed to understand that the Congress Establishment that existed almost all over the country, as residue of the original Indian National Congress had tried to use him for perpetuating their power bases. Rajiv did not possess the capability of fusing them into a pan-national political force. After the honeymoon period he was simply overwhelmed by them.