Both KCR and KTR at separate interactions with the media raised the same point: Congress lost the municipal elections in Amethi, Rahul Gandhi’s home constituency. How can such a person assure the victory of the Congress in Telangana and across the nation?
Referring to the Congress as a dying Party across the country, they said that there was absolutely no future for the Congress in Telangana.
If there is one guarantee in life or politics, it is the fact that there are no guarantees.
The Congress was completely decimated after the Emergency but within a few years, Indira Gandhi came back to power with a thumping majority.
Similarly, the BJP which at one point of time had just 2 members in the Parliament now commands an absolute majority.
“YSR is there in Andhra Pradesh. We are assured of victory there,” Sonia Gandhi had once remarked to Ghulam Nabi Azad in 2004.
Did anyone expect the untimely demise of YSR and for the Congress to vanish from the political scene in Andhra Pradesh? Did not the TRS itself get a fresh lease of life?
The statements by the father-son duo smack of over-confidence and if history has taught us anything, it is that over confidence brings with it a heavy penalty.
