NEW DELHI, Jan. 23 -- I need to preface this essay with a caveat. I was an unrelenting and downright mean critic of the Gandhi trio for privileging their own interests over everything else and for refusing to cede power within the party when all was lost, which cussedness helped strengthen the tyrant. I wrote desperate emails to the Congress website prior to the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 and again in the run-up to the UP elections of 2022, urging the Gandhis to ally with other parties even as subsidiary partners. That did not happen, and it is now regrettable consequential history! However, the recent election of a seasoned Dalit non-Gandhi as President of the Congress party and, even more crucially, Rahul Gandhi's coming of age, have f...