Don't criticise, embrace him.

Sanjay Jha, disaffected member of the Congress Party, advised former President of the Congress Party Rahul Gandhi to "take a leaf from Sachin Tendulkar's book. He gave up the thorny crown of leadership of the Men in Blue but remained the team's sheet-anchor and biggest draw throughout his career." "Dynasty has now become unfashionable; a young, aspirational India treats entitled successors as arrivistes." True, but Gandhi cannot get rid of his ancestors so he should study and talk about their successes and failures. As the first prime minister, his great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru set up the Constituent Assembly, with a dalit Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar as chairman, to write the Constitution of India. He set up the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi, the first Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) in Calcutta and Ahmedabad and appointed Rajkumari Amrit Kaur as the first health minister who set up the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken credit for adding to the number of IITs, IIMs  and AIIMS. Modi attacks the Congress and the Gandhi family for the Emergency which was proclaimed by then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and upheld by a majority verdict of then Supreme Court (SC). The Emergency did away with fundamental rights of citizens, not much different from today when anyone can be detained indefinitely by being called a terrorist under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and any criticism of the government invites immediate attack under the British law of sedition. "Why is the independence and integrity of the SC being questioned in the public domain, in a way that it has not been since the Emergency?" asked Gautam Bhatia. Because it is helping the government by postponing hearings of constitutional matters almost indefinitely, it accepts the government's version without question and its allocation of cases is not transparent. Modi is proud of authorising surgical strike against Pakistan, but India gave a bloody nose to Pakistan in 1965 with a much inferior air power. While Modi is proud of the air attack on a terrorist camp in Balakot, it was Indira Gandhi who liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan with the surrender of 93,000 Pakistani troops. Gandhi cannot win by criticising Modi because Modi has been able to persuade people to his vision of India and is by far the best orator in India today. Import substitution resulted in the licence permit raj, wrote Prof Arvind Panagariya, so we should not adopt Atmanirbhar, which means self reliance. Gandhi has to be humble, acknowledge mistakes committed by his ancestors and show that Modi is doing exactly the same, if not worse. For that he has to study, talk to historians and economists and work very hard. If he wants the ultimate prize.