Sex scandals in Indian politics are not new. But when back-to-back incidents thumped the Congress, it obviously was a matter of serious concern and forced the party leadership to send out a diktat.
First, veteran Congress politician Narain Dutt Tiwari’s sexual indiscretions finally caught up with him when he had to resign as governor of Andhra Pradesh following an expose by a local television channel. Barely a few days earlier, a general secretary of the Congress party in Kerala, Rajmohan Unnithan, 57, was granted bail after he was held on charges of immoral trafficking for being found in the company of a woman under suspicious circumstances.
Congress insiders admit that such acts by senior leaders would impact on the ongoing organisational rejeuvenation campaign launched by the party’s gen-next leader, Rahul Gandhi. The party has now decided there will no leniency and it will follow a zero-tolerance policy.
