[ad_1] Nearly half a century ago, in an academic assessment of the development of political parties, Congress It was rightly described as an “election winning machine”. The party was found to be internally friendly and not innovative. Unlike in the pre-independence era, this came to remove supporters’ mobilization and instead preferred easy recourse to voter mobilization. But the organizational network created by the oldest party during the freedom struggle was so strong that it continues even today. Nevertheless, erosion in its organizational structure is evident over the past decades and…