Cong to re-gain its pre-eminent position

After 20 years of lacklustre performance, India’s oldest political party the Congress is moving towards regaining its pre-eminent position the indication of which has been clearly given in the victory Ferozabad parliamentary seat.The by-election to Ferozababad parliamentary constituency because it was vacated by Akhiklesh Yadav of Samajwadi party as he had won the Lok Sabha election from two constituencies Kannauj and Ferozabad in Uttar Pradesh. Ferozabad was considered the family borough of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. And Akhilesh Yadav is his son. He wanted to keep the Ferozabad parliament constituency within the hold of his family. Which is why SP gave ticket to Mulayam’s daughter in law Dimple Yadav. She is the wife of Akhilesh Yadav. Congress candidate Raj Babbar defeated Dimple convincingly. The result of the Ferozabad parliamentary seat clearly reflects one very important thing for the Congress party that the Muslim community has started coming back to its fold. They were supporting Mulayam Singh Yadav blindly for the last 20 years and he was so polpular among them that he was called Maulana Mulayam. He also exploited his popularity among the community to the hilt for his political gains. But loss of Ferozabad to Congress is a severe jolt to SP . Politically, Uttar Pradesh has prime position and its role in competition for power at the Centre is vital. UP also sends 80 MPs to Lok Sabha. It was Uttar Pradesh where Congress became very weak and it appeared that it had negligible presence in the state before Lok Sabha elections. But since the results of Lok Sabha elections, Congress is going from strength to strength and it is only because of Muslim minority, which was Congress party old vote bank, is coming back to its fold. And alongwith Muslim Minority, the upper caste( Brahmins) , Scheduled caste and tribes are also returing steadily to Congress fold. The credit of moving towards gaining the pre-eminent position goes to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Congress General Secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi who have campaign hard to rejuvenate the party. But still the Congress needs to do a lot on organisational front in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Because BSP’s supremo Mayawati still reigns supreme in the all important state of Uttar Pradesh if the result of By-polls in MLA constituencies are any thing to go by. Congress has won 10 MLA seats out of 31 seats for which elections have been held in UP and other states. Samajwadi Party and Bhartiya Janata party have been decimated. The Left have been routed in its bastion of West Bengal and Kerala by Trinamul-Congress and Congress respectively. The Bengal Tigress TMC supremo and Union Railways Minister Mamta Bannerji has inflicted severe jolt to 31 years of Left’s rule in West Bengal and the result of By-polls is a clear indication for the Left that What is in store for them in the assembly elections to be held in 2011. BJP and the Left are suffering from the same disease of self political aggrandisement without the reading the writing on the wall.