Congress Picks Sonia Gandhi Again: Safe Bet Or Last Hope?

Sonia Gandhi has returned as Congress president 20 months after making way for her son Rahul Gandhi in 2017. At a time when the party faces its biggest crisis yet, She returns as interim president, pulled out of near retirement two months after the Congress suffered a massive drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls under Rahul Gandhi's leadership. With large-scale defections in Telangana and Goa, 14 MLAs resigning in Karnataka and the party's most recognised faces in Maharashtra and Assam switching over to the BJP, can Sonia Gandhi's return stem the exodus of partymen and regroup the opposition? Or is this yet another admission that the party just cannot look beyond Parivar Raaj?