Prakash Ra­mad­har be­lieves that his re­turn as leader of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP), on the eve of the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, could save the 19-year-old par­ty from po­lit­i­cal bur­ial.

Since as­sum­ing the po­si­tion, Ra­mad­har has faced at­tacks from peo­ple with­in the COP, some of whom even threat­ened le­gal ac­tion and be­gan wran­gling over the par­ty’s lead­er­ship.

On Wednes­day, Ra­mad­har, a for­mer St Au­gus­tine MP and le­gal af­fairs min­is­ter in the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment, said he be­lieved in the “Lazarus syn­drome,” re­fer­ring to the COP that was po­lit­i­cal­ly dead but whose life has since been re­stored.