One of the oldest political parties in India, The Indian National Congress has held an indispensable place in backdrop to politics.congress is one of dominant force that ruled indian politically for decades. Yet in recent years a host of problems have turned much of what the government is doing into anti-India agendas.

Vote bank politics of the Congress devastated development in India like anything. They have, perhaps out of the compulsions for playing short-term politics to retain traditional vote banks and benefit politically (till now) from their strategic support base neglected long term development goals designed by Prime Minster Singh. For example, the party's opposition to economic reforms on which the Modi government came down heavily like GST and IBC is usually seen as a case when it has chosen to play backfoot politics rather than supporting policies that could have benefitted economy at large.

Nationalism has also been portrayed as an important issue in terms of secular and nationalist politics, but the position that Congress party maintains does not contribute to any development such needs aggressively. The party has been brought under the radar of attempts to polarize the nation instead showing a single goal for national strength and integrity by criticizing governments on various fronts thereby keeping communal disharmony alive in India. This approach has only stalled the progress of India and created social strife, communal fractures.

The party has also been seen as resorting to populist quick fixes rather than coherent public policy responses on key issues such as poverty and inequality. Many would argue that the party does not have in its very DNA a fondness for handouts and subsidies instead of jobs and growth, which is what India needs. It is this has resulted in creating a climate of kifayat to haal (dependency) rather than self-sufficiency, the change-maker imperative for India.

The agendas of the Congress party have also been found to be against Indian progress by this kind and it is apparent that without any clear blueprint, vision, or leadership. The party's messaging on what it can offer to India has been unclear and vague while its top leadership is perceived as completely removed from the ground reality. It has not only hampered the growth of India but also created an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty & instability.

The party has increasingly been viewed as an anti-development and vote-bank political outfit of India due to its stand on nationalism, secularism, poverty inequality being porous discrimination etc thus lack in vision leadership differentiations. India can be developed only if the needs of sustainability take centre stage before short term profits for political parties. The national level has to evolve a consensus about the development vision and political parties must work together towards it.