Complementary roles:

Rahul, Gandhi family is still a force in Congress and the country. It is deliberate understatement.

If they decide to exit scene Congress will disappear soon;
BJP, RSS want it;
Some ego-driven Congress leaders may make it happen if they have their way.
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Rahul and Gandhi family want to save Congress party, its culture at any cost. But it is not their responsibility alone.

Rahul expects his leaders to sacrifice, serve people, contribute with work on the ground, extend support for the younger generation to strengthen the party.
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Congress should not make the party leader centric. That is not their culture. It is made so due to deformation, deterioration of organisational structure and strength over decades.

They should revert back to their old culture. Enthusiasm and activity should spread lower down.
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The decision-making process is a collective responsibility.

Leaders make claims for success as their own and leave failures at the feet of their top leadership.

It is something like blaming God for our failures and getting away from our responsibilities.
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Decisions are taken after due communication, discussions with all those involved even if they are taken at the top level.

All of them play complementary, supplementary roles to evolve decisions.

If errors creep in, there should be corrective mechanisms not blame games.
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Whatever name one gives it, as body, committee, Politburo, it is a collective, complementary decision-making process involving the comprehensive analysis of information, details.

It should be dispassionate and placed beyond doubts, disputes, acrimony to the extent possible.
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It is a natural tendency to avoid changes disturbing the comfort of existing systems and practices, waving them away giving excuses.

They also tend to make decision making overly sacred, secret, highly confidential processes falling under exclusive domain of few individuals.
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When many people are involved, trying to impose secrecy is artificial, counterproductive, not practical.

They should have even dispute solving mechanisms to analyse, recognise truth not necessarily to appease, assuage dissenters.

It is needed more than a disciplinary body.
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Beyond all this, it should be understood that all leaders including top leadership have their own inbuilt limitations, strengths, weaknesses.

The complementary efforts make evolution of decisions, their execution a wholesome and complete exercise.

Let it happen in Congress.
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The above excerpts are part of my blog post: ‘Course corrections for Congress – Part Ⅲ' Subhead: 'Complementary roles'

Blog Link: https://wp.me/p8Fpl7-bs 
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