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.
Haryana lesson for BJP
‘ Batoge to Katoge’
Haryana lesson for Congress
‘Baatoge to Katoge’. Rahul Gandhi should stop trying this strategy of divide and rule with the Hindu majority. It can backfire as it clearly did. Also if you are for caste equality why was Kumari Selja ignored and suppressed?
What is the Congress ideology? At least with BJP you know what they stand for. With DMK they claim to stand for Tamil chauvinism and social justice but slip in to profting the Karunidhi clan. Parties like SP and BSP are about a particular caste. What does the Congress stand for?
The usual answer is big tent, which is a euphemism for their political opportunism. Rahul Gandhi spoke about empowering lower castes to actually try to divide the Hindu votes by sowing divisions. The reason why this did not work is because there was an inconsistency between what he claimed and what they did i.e make the Jats in Haryana rule over the rest.The other castes saw through the lies.
This is not an old guard vs new guard thing. This is a say what you stand for, and dont change it because you are power hungry and simply dont lie thing.
No journalist of the old guard such as Vir Singhvi or others will ever dare call Rahul Gandhi’s opportunism as that. When Rahul Gandhi speaks of caste it is for equality, when BJP genuinely tries to empower all, it is caste calculus. Hypocrisy by all.
One thing is for sure. If it had been the Congress in power in Haryana for two terms, with a huge head of anti incumbency steam having built up, the BJP would have blown it away in a landslide. So Team Rahul has to figure out how to win elections.
Writes “I am always wary of the tendency to find a fall guy after every defeat.”.
But the article is Hooda Bashing, Modi Bashing.
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Seriously old guard? Then let’s start with the oldest guard, the Gandhi family. The elephant in the room is RaGa and his bunch of clueless advisers/ sycophants. After all who allowed Hooda to run riot. As long as RaGa and his bunch rule the roost the Congress doesn’t have hope in hell.
Since the Congress lost, Hooda is being blamed. If it had won, then Rahul would have been given the credit.
CONgress embedded lackeys in the media, calling themselves journalists, are more pained than the party itself. Call it being more loyal than the queen herself.