Congress and Gandhi: The Stakes in the Upcoming Election

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In the upcoming election, the future of the Gandhi family and the Congress party is at stake. The Indian National Congress (INC) has always been known for its ability to adapt to changing Indian realities. This adaptability has allowed it to survive and thrive, despite facing opposition from various fronts. However, the party’s reliance on the Gandhi family has become its defining ideology. The party’s future now seems to be intertwined with the future of the Gandhi family. This video delves into the history of the INC, its ideological shifts, and the role of the Gandhi family in shaping its destiny.

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00:00 Outlook brings to you excerpts from its latest issue titled Cinema Politico.

00:06 The issue explores politics and cinema and the ever blurring lines between the two.

00:12 Ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a slew of propaganda movies have hit the big screen and OTT platforms amid much criticism and approach,

00:22 while many more films are slated to release in the coming weeks stirring even a bigger debate.

00:28 The latest issue of Outlook looks at the genre of nationalist and propaganda films in the Indian context

00:35 and also continues with the exploration of the ideology question in the context of upcoming general elections.

00:42 Both themes are contextual and linked in many ways.

00:47 Trapped in a Template by Harish Khare, a Delhi-based senior journalist and a public commentator.

00:53 In the upcoming elections, more than the Congress, the future of the Gandhi family is at stake, he explores.

01:00 A political party's ideological profile is defined and shaped as much by its founding principles as by the opposition it faces at any time.

01:10 The political party that dynamically fails to adjust its sails to the changing winds of global currents and internal storms inevitably gets marginalized.

01:21 No political party can afford to remain stranded on an island of ideological purity.

01:27 The Indian National Congress is no exception to this rule.

01:31 If it has survived for so long, it is only because of its ability to fine-tune its ideological pretensions and postures to answer the ever-changing Indian realities.

01:42 The capacity for adaptability has often exasperated the purists and baffled the rivals and opponents.

01:50 Preoccupied as it was in the first 20 years, i.e., 1947 to 1967 after independence, with national reorganization and constitutional consolidation,

02:03 the Indian National Congress had to necessarily carry on its pre-independence identity as an umbrella party,

02:10 accommodating and amenable to one and all, as long as they pretended to subscribe to the idea of India.

02:17 The party boss, Sardar Patel, frowned upon any ideological assertions.

02:22 He ran the Congress Socialist Party out of the Indian National Congress.

02:26 The Congress stood drained of influential voices like Acharya Narendra Dev, Jai Prakash Narayan, Acharya Kriplani, N.G. Ranga and Ram Manohar Lohia.

02:37 The Congress bosses were content to pursue power and office, as Nehru Patel performed in Jugalbandi to address the urgent and desperate task

02:47 of carving a new Indian state out of the post-partition chaos and giving it a new instrument of legitimacy, the Constitution of India.

02:56 For this and more, read the latest issue of Outlook.

Congress and Gandhi: The Stakes in the Upcoming Election

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