Indian political system has always been more into theatricals and less content irrespective of political parties. Indian National Congress elected today its new President and it seems the results were out before the actual election was held. The grand old party needs a boost no doubt and the Gandhis’ have quite gracefully conducted the transition after holding on to the mantle for two decades.

Good for the party that they had a democratic process, or a staged setup looking into the difference of votes received by only two candidates that contested. Those who have followed Congress’s presidential election from the outside have not got any juice to talk about besides a general feeling that ‘so what Congress party has now decided to have a President other than Gandhi’, is there any significance or difference expected?

Time will tell but what is significant is that Rahul Gandhi has emerged taller by at least an inch within his party and otherwise as he is able to attract a huge number of people in his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. The crowds are significant in numbers and the social media visuals by the party is showing that a large number of people are coming out to be with Rahul Gandhi and that he is the star campaigner for the Congress. So the blue eyed boy of the party remains to be a ‘Gandhi’.

Elections are a different game altogether and BJP has also woken up to the fact that the challenging economic hardship which people are going through will not make it easy for them to get a cakewalk in the coming elections. Anything can happen but it is to be seen whether the ‘magic’ can happen for Indian Opposition parties. It is a complex equation but BJP is also a complex party and has its own strategies and well-oiled machinery.

The anti-incumbency element is the only tool that the opposition can work on but when it comes to the BJP star, ‘Mr. Modi’, the Gandhi scion seems to be far behind.

It is of course heartening to see that Prime Minister Modi has congratulated the new Congress Party President in a tweet though he is the one who is very vocal with the slogan ‘CongressMuktBharat’ during election times. Well social courtesies are our culture which we drop when it comes to elections.

The strategist has played their hand well. The party presidency is now not in the hand of ‘any’ Gandhi but a Gandhi is only projected as a ‘star’ of the party. So when it comes to election, any southward result for Congress- the blames goes to the non-Gandhi President but the power remains in the family. After all the family business has to go on…