India, April 20 -- Among the many promises made by the Congress before it came to power in Karnataka in 2023 was that it would restore a certain degree of morality, even probity and transparency, to public life. Nearly three years later, members of the Congress have publicly defied all decorum and rectitude in ways that have robbed the few achievements of the state government, including some innovative legislation, of their shine.

For too long, an unseemly struggle over the "right" to chief ministership has not only pre-occupied TV anchors, newspapers and the social media, but has absorbed much of our elected representatives' time. It shows no signs of abating. Recently, 30 Congress MLAs flew off to Delhi to plead with their party leader...