Mrs Sonia Gandhi

One tough lady. Yep. That's her. Now, without getting into analyses of party ideologies, I just can't help but admit that Mrs. Sonia Gandhi is without doubt one of the most influential persons in Indian Politics today, which by the way is getting messier by the day. What with the media introducing a new angle to the everpresent mudslinging competitions. And talking about the media, I think it was all those kids at school who would stand in a circle and yell "FIGHT"......."FIGHT" everytime there was one, that grew up to join the TV channels. And guess what? They still don't like it when the fights end quickly. So they try and egg each party into slinging a little more mud, sometimes packing it for them. And given that there were so many of them at school, it was only a matter of time before a zillion news channels came into being, jostling each other for a better view. Anyways, full credit to Mrs. Gandhi, for she has been able to ignore the noisy lot by the sidelines and built an image with hues of honesty , political acumen and leadership capabilities and above all austerity. And all of them in the right depth too, shrouding it all with a bit of enigma all the time. Enigma because I am not still not sure what her long-term political motives are. And I don't know if anybody is either.
But when I say that I am being increasingly convinced everyday of her amazing knack to do just the right thing at the right time, I don't care if she is from the Congress party or from the Timbaktoo People's Party. Coming from a family which I assume was not politically inclined beyond voting at the elections, married into a family that has been a political dynasty in a totally different neighbourhood, having lost her politician husband in a grisly bomb blast and raising two kids while the whole nation has been watching, waiting for her to goof up, she seems to have done well so far, timing everything to perfection. And that's one thing that stands out, even better than her capability to make the congress leaders stand in line, her sense of timing. Everytime the opposition were ranting and raving like a pre-match Mohd. Ali at a press conference, she successfully rabbit-punched them....right at the press conference.
Looks like she has done it yet again. Resigning as the Lok Sabha MP she left the opposition shadow-boxing with nothing to punch at. Way to go Mrs. Gandhi. You have successfully mastered the art of playing to the gallery. Hats off to the politician in you. But that doesn't mean I am going to vote for your party in the next elections. Not yet.