Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 2

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<b>Sonia scorched, by turnout</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->By half past one, everyone at the Congress’s control room was panicky. The information was that there had only been 27 per cent polling till then, one point less than in 2004.

“Madam is angry and Priyanka is worried,” said state Congress vice-president Satyadev Tripathi.

A young associate of Rahul Gandhi was monitoring the information from the various booths on two cellphones and text-messaging him. Tripathi asked the workers to fan out across the villages but was ignored.

By 3 pm, a blame game of sorts had begun. “Mulayam has achieved what he set out to,” said Deepak Vajpayee, a Congress worker from Devanandpur in Sadar Assembly constituency.

But a senior functionary, who didn’t want to be quoted, was more realistic: “Rahul sweated it out, but you know what the Congress is like. Our people like their leaders to slog and reap the profits without doing anything.”<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->