Nothing noteworthy or interesting comes out of the Congress party these days, other than their dynastic leaders shooting themselves in the foot or taking periodic sabbaticals.
However two well educated and articulate congressmen have figured out how to stay in the media spotlight, and make their points in their own unique ways.
Shashi Tharoor has been in the spotlight for many reasons. The homicide/suicide investigation into the mysterious death of his wife continues, but that has certainly not cramped his style. He continues to speak his mind, to the utter discomfort of his party's first family. His latest disagreement with the party regarding disrupting parliament has not gone down well with his party president and he has been publicly rebuked for his position. He continues to give fodder to the BJP to needle the Congress party.
Tharoor has also been in the news for his brilliantly argued position on reparations from Britain to India for their loot during the colonial rule. The Oxford debate video has gone viral and has won Tharoor much praise for his argument and superior oratory skills, even from the Prime Minister of India.
All in all Tharoor is an exciting young politician, a highly skilled and intelligent orator, a guy who is not afraid to speak his mind.
On the other hand there is Mani Shankar Aiyer - I fondly call him Mani Shankar Aidiot. Mani's singular traits are his extreme adulation for the Gandhi family, and pathological hatred for Narendra Modi.
For all his (supposed) intellectual prowess, Aidiot shows himself to be a clown when he speaks on these two topics. Reason goes out the window, and all that remains is the raves and rants of a senile old man, somehow hanging on to his role as a party mouthpiece, courtesy his many friends in the media.
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