India, Oct. 25 -- The 86-year-old Moily says the Congress, under Rahul Gandhi, faces the dual challenge of finding committed individuals and developing systems for effective governance.

Electoral outcomes in India are increasingly shaped by money power, caste alignments and religious polarisation rather than merit, service or integrity, says former Union Law Minister and former Karnataka Chief Minister Dr M. Veerappa Moily.

In his autobiography, Unlimited Dreams, Limited Time (Rupa Publications), Moily laments that even committed leaders such as Mallikarjun Kharge, the current AICC president, and K.H. Muniyappa, a former Union minister in the Manmohan Singh government, has fallen victim to such distortions.

"The growing influence of di...