His Monday LS speech had elements of good oppn politics. It avoided shrill anti-institutional rhetoric. But can he really stop being a political insurgent & focus consistently on issues like unemployment?
Rahul Gandhi’s address in Parliament on Monday was a glimpse of the politician the 54-year-old can be. He critiqued in a dramatic but measured manner successive govts’ failure to tackle unemployment, the failure of “good idea” Make in India, failure to organise production, “handing it over to the Chinese” and so on. His address was what is desired of a Leader of Opposition. Yet, this was but one speech. What is more on display, in Parliament and outside, is a constant combativeness.