On Rahul Gandhi’s birthday yesterday, Congressmen crowded around him in nervous anxiety. Verdict 2019 is an even worse defeat for Congress than 2014. Five years ago a decade of anti-incumbency was at least a plausible excuse. Today, to be so badly crushed while in opposition is a portent of near-total irrelevance. To be fair to Rahul Gandhi, he’s acknowledged his failure and resigned from the post of party president, leaving his party desperately groping for alternatives, for a leader as well as for an ideology.
2019 is Congress’s annus horribilis, the party failing to open its account in as many as 14 states. Of the 192 direct fights between Congress and BJP, BJP won 176 and that too by huge margins Read More
