India, Oct. 14 -- There is good and bad news for the Congress, which is struggling hard to shed inertia and indecisiveness and emerge from its own cobweb. The more it tries, though through feeble attempts, the more it remains the same, without realising the need to become battle-ready for the coming electoral contests. While circumstances are fast changing in favour of the Grand Old Party (GOP), its leadership seems mostly unaware of the role that the party, as the premier opposition party, is expected to play at such a crucial juncture.

As the crescendo has gathered stormy proportions over the functioning of the Election Commission of India (ECI) - a front-ranking constitutional body responsible for conducting free and fair elections - ...