It cannot be that the entire senior cadre of the Congress are sycophants of such venality that they cannot see what is happening to the venerable old party. It cannot be that not one of them has ambitions beyond being, at best, an influential shadow (or worse, a visibly strung puppet) of someone with the surname Gandhi – for the moment Sonia, but possibly Rahul, or even Priyanka. It cannot be that not one of them senses the change in the country, and that not one has learned the lessons that are explicit and implicit in the election results. It must be, rather, that more than one has seen, felt and analysed these realities and come to independent conclusions.