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As far as Congress is concerned, the results are a mixed bag. Good news came from the South, Priyanka Gandhi, who reached the Lok Sabha for the first time from Wayanad, Kerala, won by a record margin of four lakh votes. Again, this showed that the BJP has failed to make much headway against the Congress even when faced with strong local leaders like Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar, and in Kerala where it has failed to overcome the political firewall erected by the United Democratic Front. is unable. Front and Left Democratic Front.
However, in Rajasthan, the Congress suffered humiliation, finishing third in four constituencies and allowing the BJP to win five of the seven assembly by-elections. The party also lost the only assembly by-election in Chhattisgarh, but put up a slightly better fight in Madhya Pradesh, where it defeated a BJP cabinet minister, and significantly reduced the victory margin of the BJP candidate standing from the constituency of former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Gave.
For Prime Minister Modi and the BJP, the NDA not only swept the coveted state of Maharashtra elections but also made a massive comeback in Uttar Pradesh, winning 26 of the 46 assembly bypolls, and swept Bihar and the Northeast. . This will be a welcome respite from the question marks on governance after clearly waking up during the Lok Sabha elections.
Still, this is no reason for the opposition to give up and die. As Heman Soren in Jharkhand, Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and Congress leaders in Karnataka have shown, fighting the Delhi Sultanate and its cronies in various states is possible through concrete grassroots politics rather than ideological stances or parliamentary rhetoric.
Most importantly, Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders need to recognize that Prime Minister Modi’s fading appeal as an unstoppable magician after a decade is not enough to ensure victory as that may be the tip of the saffron iceberg. Which can be much more difficult to uproot. ,
(The author is a senior Delhi-based journalist and author of ‘Behanji: A Political Biography of Mayawati’. This is an opinion article. The views expressed above are the author’s own. The Quint Neither endorses nor is responsible for it.)
