Hyderabad, March 20 -- Without taking into account the prevailing eco-system which favours the growth and expansion of the rightist forces across the globe, several media commentators often end up holding Gandhis-Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka-responsible for all which goes wrong in the Indian National Congress.

Ahead of the All India Congress Committee session in Ahmedabad on April 8 and 9, they are charging that just a small coterie is running the party, whose organizational set-up is in tatters.

No doubt the 140-year-old party has been out of power in the Centre and most of the states since 2014 yet the whole scenario cannot be seen in isolation. This phenomenon of the consolidation of rightist forces is not only confined to India but has...