Congress once again deferred party organizational elections. This decision is said to be taken unanimously, but it is a decision by Sonia Gandhi and Prince Rahul. The mother-son duo is fearing for elections because of defeat. This time the party has given the reason of Covid-19. When all other party programs are going smoothly, only the elections are deferred due to Corona pandemic is a high level of hypocrisy, for which Congress is well known. Actually, after the humiliating loss in West Bengal, where the party has come to zero, the mother-son duo should leave the posts in the party without anybody asking. But, why Sonia is not leaving the top post is big surprise, when it is proved umpteen times that, neither Sonia nor Rahul can take party to win is very far, but even able to get good number seats. The media behavior is also surprising as they are always behind this Gandhi dynasty which is incurring losses after losses. The twenty three leaders written letter bomb to change leadership was defused by Sonia by simply taking all powers in her own hand, because she knows that other party  leaders have no guts to ask to vacate the post. And that too, when party president has not been able to get a single win in any state.  Indira Gandhi  was able to wrest power in any condition for the party. So, her influence could be understood. But, why Congress leaders are so shy about questioning Sonia’s leadership abilities in such devastating situation for Congress is really surprising. The assembly election defeat and the success of defectors can lead to further erosion of the grand old party’s base. The Congress Working Committee (CWC) met on Monday to discuss the defeat in the assembly elections, with party president Sonia Gandhi saying that if the party did not “face up to reality”, it would not draw the right lessons. What lessons Congress still wants to draw when the party has come to zero from forty four in West Bengal,  failed to capture power in Kerala and Assam, lost power in Puducherry before the polls and failed to regain it, and is a junior partner in the ruling coalition in Tamil Nadu.Not these lessons are enough to think that, it is high time that, Sonia should vacate the post now for anybody else except Rahul. The high-profile defectors who switched ranks have found leadership oppor-tunities in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — with Himanta Biswa Sarma (who left the Congress in 2015) now becoming the third former Congress leader (after N Biren Singh in Manipur and Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh) to take over as a BJP chief minister. This is a rubbing salt on Congress’s injuries. The setback also comes at a time when the question of leadership remains unresolved. Sonia Gandhi is interim president but wants to give way to Rahul Gandhi. Her blind love for son has failed Congress and leading it to entire wiping out from the political map. He doesn’t want to be president but is, for all effective purposes, in-charge. A group of dissenters forced the party to commit to a timeline for organizational elections — but while slated for this summer, it has now been deferred due to the second wave of the Corona virus pandemic. And in any case, the dissenters lack a leader with the stature to openly, successfully, challenge the leadership of the Nehru-Gandhi family. Through all of this, the Congress appears to sense an opportunity in the Centre’s mixed record in managing Covid-19. The fact that Rahul Gandhi gave obvious, but sensible, suggestions on the course of the disease, and that party organizations such as the Indian Youth Congress have done a stellar job in providing relief to citizens, gives the party hope that it can shape some of the political narrative around the pandemic. But in the absence of a clear leadership — the key question is not who becomes party president but who becomes the face to take on Narendra Modi in what will once again be a presidential-style contest in 2024 — the party’s ability to rise is doubtful. Modi’s failure to manage Corona crisis may give some hope for Congress, but the party should change its leadership. The shift in incentives for leaders and workers who can sense political opportunities elsewhere, and the erosion in states where the party’s base was strong, and the nature of the crisis in the Congress becomes clearer.