Congress or the Indian National Congress (INC) is one of two major political parties in India. It was founded in 1885 and played a leading role in India’s Independence movement. It has ruled during most of India’s independent years and gave the country its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Leadership of the Congress too has been dominated by the Nehru-Gandhi family.
The Congress is a center-left party, and lists on its website democracy, nationalism, secularism, inclusive growth and social justice as its core values. It last ruled India between 2004 and 2014, but has since lost its sway, being reduced to just 52 seats in the 2019 General Elections. INDIA, the alliance headed by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, was an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Together, the INDIA Alliance secured 238 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. The Congress won 99 of these.
The only grassroots connect Priyanka and the Gandhi Parivar has to India is real estate. This grassroots initiative of the family is led by Robert Vadra. The total grassroots turnover is unknown. This is a strong connect though that will forever guide the Vadra Maino families.
How did she win this seat in the first place without “grassroots connect”?
And she is supposed to connect at the grassroots level in 10 days. I thought it took a politician at least a decade to connect with his constituency at the grassroots level.