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, is an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
I agree with Sanjay Hegde that bringing Hardik Patel’s private life into public view is in poor taste. But certainly those who did so do not come across as “frustrated losers”. I see neither frustration, nor a fear of losing in the act–it is politics, which has regrettably sunk so low. In the heat of an election campaign, it was perhaps too tempting to show an opponent as a debaucher, to besmirch his reputation. Those who did this deserve to be condemned, but they cannot be called “frustrated losers”.