Should we, shouldn’t we?

Indecision and uncertainty are becoming hallmarks of the Congress’s functioning of late, feel some party leaders. It was not just Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh who found his fate swinging like a pendulum, crippling the state administration as well as the state unit of the Congress. In West Bengal, Pranab Mukherjee had resigned as PCC chief in 2006, but the Congress president could appoint his successor only last February. Similarly, Gujarat PCC chief Bharatsinh Solanki and Himachal Pradesh PCC chief Viplove Thakur resigned from their posts after the party’s defeat in the last Assembly election—and the Congress is yet to find their replacements. “What can the A K Antony Committee or any other panel do when ad hocism is becoming a tenure?” moaned a leader.