Congress falls before election after Modi gains.

Shortly before the national elections, India’s Grand Old Party went from being a serious competitor to Modi to a struggling force. This transformation took place within a span of two months. Delhi, India — New Delhi After a little more than two months had passed, the Congress party, which is the most powerful opposition force in India, appeared to be on a roll.

During a statewide march, Rahul Gandhi, the head of the party of Mahatma Gandhi, which is the oldest political movement in the country, had attracted enormous audiences. This had rekindled hopes in the Congress party, which had been battling for relevance following a series of political failures.

As a result of the party’s victory in the legislative elections held in the southern state of Karnataka, which is home to the startup capital of Bengaluru, the Bhartiya Janata Party, which is currently led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was deposed.

Furthermore, according to the results of opinion surveys, it was anticipated that it would win four out of the five states that voted for their state assemblies in November. These states were Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chattisgarh, and Mizoram.

According to veterans of the party, those predicted victories would have provided the Congress with the necessary support to challenge Modi in the general elections that are expected to take place in a few weeks.

On the contrary, the reverse occurred. The polls of public opinion were biased. Only Telangana was won by the Congress party.

According to every opinion poll, Congress was leading in the elections for Madhya Pradesh by a margin of two percent of votes, but we ended up losing by eight percent of votes. Digvijay Singh, a senior party leader and a former chief minister of the state in central India, is curious about the reasons behind the fact that the actual results ended up being different from the opinion polls.

As the 138-year-old party gets ready to compete against Modi in the upcoming national election, analysts and Congress leaders believe that providing a straightforward response to this question and others like it, which are related to the gap that exists between the party’s expectations and the results of prior elections, could be crucial to the party’s prospects of winning.

A successful showing in those state elections would have validated Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, also known as the Uniting India March. This march had seen him walk more than 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) over the course of 150 days, beginning in Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of the country, and ending in Kashmir, which is ruled by the Indian government.

In the majority of the states that had elections in November, the Congress party was engaged in a direct one-on-one competition with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was in the opposition. They were trying to capitalize on the anti-incumbency voter emotion that was directed against the government that was in power.

It was stated by a Congress leader in Madhya Pradesh who asked to remain anonymous that he had advised the party leadership that it needed to concentrate mobilization efforts around the 21 percent tribal vote in the state, but that his attempts to persuade them were unsuccessful. This is what the leader had to say: “Congress was very complacent.”

According to him, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was successful in gaining support by concentrating on tribal areas and securing their votes. Many of the seats that the Congress had won in the assembly elections held in 2018 were now held by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).

The same unfolded in the states of Rajasthan and Chattisgarh, where artiya Janata Party (BJP) also gained the majority of seats in jurisdictions where tribal votes are the most prevalent, reversing what had occurred in 2018.Party insiders also accuse officials of being arrogant for rejecting the offers of smaller regional parties such as the Samajwadi Party. The Samajwadi Party is mostly headquartered in Uttar Pradesh, which is the most populous state in India, but it also has a modest presence in Madhya Pradesh.

A number of individuals, including the former chief minister Singh, have the perception that a more nefarious scheme is currently being carried out. Singh has asserted that the BJP was able to defy opinion surveys in the most recent elections by manipulating electronic voting machines and a process that maintains a paper trail of voting.

Critics of the Congress point out that it is fast to accept results when it wins using the same mechanisms that it criticizes when it loses. However, there is little substantial proof that those elections were rigged in a systematic manner. The remark made by Singh is shared by a significant number of Congress leaders.

One of them stated that it was obvious that the party was losing in Madhya Pradesh, and that it was not due to any kind of foul play but rather due to bad “both management.” This is a reference to the practice of party workers making sure that their voters appear and vote at every polling station.

Congress falls before election after Modi gains.

By incorporating regional parties into a national coalition known as the INDIA alliance, the Congress party has made an effort to resurrect its decline in popularity. The BJP was obliged to reevaluate its own approach as a result of that action.

Since that time, however, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been able to successfully chip away at the alliance that is India. Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of the state of Bihar in the north, has defected and joined the NDA coalition, which is led by the BJP. Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, has also left India; however, it is not yet apparent whether she would join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which she was a member of twenty years ago.

Numerous friends of the Congress party have been subjected to the fury of law enforcement agencies that are under the control of the Modi government in New Delhi. One example of this is Hemant Soren, the former chief minister of the central state of Jharkhand, who was arrested in January on charges related to corruption although he has denied the allegations.

However, party sources acknowledge that Congress itself is equally to blame for the parties’ decision to break away from its alliance during this time. For one reason? They claim that it is unwilling to accommodate partners in seat-sharing in a sufficient manner, which is an issue that Uttar Pradesh’s Kumar also brought up.