New Delhi: The electoral drubbings have come as a “blessing in disguise” for some leaders of the Congress party who plan to write books to tell their side of the story.
While former Union minister Salman Khurshid has already started writing a book on the UPA II which had straightaway took the BJP to power at the Centre, late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s confidante R.K. Dhawan has recently expressed to write a book.
There are many leaders in the grand old party who can reveal many things with perspectives like M.L. Fotedar, P. Chidambaram, Digvijay Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyar besides the veteran N.D. Tiwari.
While Mr Khurshid might have lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections or Mr Chidambaram and Mr Singh had stayed away from fighting the polls, but they can use this time in creative writings, party insiders feel.
These leaders have seen the first coalition experiment at the Centre under the Congress’ leadership that lasted for 10 years (2004-14). Had it helped the party or revived the BJP by marginalising the regional players who got political space in the name of “social justice”, and “regional pride” and thus controlled the Centre since 1996, could be analysed by the Congress leaders wanting to write books.
It is unclear whether the Congress leadership is encouraging the party leaders for writing or they, on their own, decide to pen down memoirs in the last decade which had seen members of the Gandhi-Nehru family (Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi) refusing to either lead the government or join it.
