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Shashi Tharoor is set to enter the fray after his meeting with interim president Sonia Gandhi and Ashok Gehlot is seen as the other contender.
The first and foremost question is who will lead the Opposition among all these regional satraps who have been vying for national arena for so long?
The good news for the Congress is that it cannot get worse. Unlike the poll debacles of 1967, 1977, 1996, 1998-1999, the electoral defeats of 2014 and 2019 did not result in a split or the creation of breakaway groups. Yet, the periodic desertions are bleeding the Congress white.
If Gehlot, backed by Gandhis, files his nomination, it is quite possible that the G-23 grouping could also field a candidate to challenge him.
Experts who have chronicled the Congress believe that it may be theoretically possible to have a president outside the family, but not practically.