Given the absence of any credible try to revive the Delhi Congress’ organisational construction up to now 5 years and its final minute election preparation, the grand outdated occasion’s dismal present shocked none. It solely proved once more how the Congress excessive command, particularly Group Rahul-Priyanka, thinks preventing an election is nearly performing some final minute fanciful highway exhibits, addressing a couple of rallies, releasing reels and doing troll-like each day tweets with no takers on the bottom.
With occasion management selecting to battle all 70 seats even on this battered state, as a substitute of specializing in choose seats has already raised questions on its tactical acumen and intent. Barring Kasturba Nagar, the place the Congress got here second, the occasion was pushed to the third spot-barring some presentable exhibits in a couple of seats like Badli and Patparganj-mostly, forfeiting deposits.
The consequence not solely confirmed the Congress was no match to preventing BJP however that it was additionally incapable of wresting again its base from incumbency-burdened AAP. It was not even doing ‘focused’ vote-katva acts; if the votes Congress polled had been technically greater than the defeat margins of AAP in some seats, the identical would have occurred vis-a-vis dropping margins of BJP in some seats.
The actual fact Congress couldn’t discover a crutch to carry on even in Delhi’s sizeable Dalit, OBC and Muslim pockets replicate the negligible impression of Rahul Gandhi’s routine show of Structure, recycled Mandal-talks, and caste census guarantees. The meeting polls additionally confirmed how little Delhiites had been impressed by the identical Gandhis, who just some months in the past had publicly termed Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest as a vendetta act by the Modi authorities and joined fingers with AAP within the Lok Sabha polls, to later calling Kejriwal a liar and scamster. As an alternative, the Congress biggies now face the cost of getting lent voice, with none return, to the BJP’s battle again plank towards Kejriwal’s occasion.The Congress, within the firm of CPI-M, had performed the identical politics towards Mamata Banerjee-led TMC when it was battling the BJP problem in West Bengal. She fought and survived however turned bitterly towards Congress and ended even her courtesy visits to 10, Janpath. Now, a wounded and defeated Kejriwal might flip extra hostile towards its INDIA bloc ally Congress. After the West Bengal and Delhi experiences, the main target can be now on the RJD-Congress chemistry within the run-up to the Bihar meeting polls and on the already-visible chill in Congress-SP and Congress-NC ties.All these can compound the duty of protecting the bloc united-with each Omar Abdullah and CPI’s D Raja having earlier taken potshots at fights throughout the bloc, expose the Congress to skirmishes with, and tactical grouping of some regional giants.
Some within the Congress camp are looking for solace within the rout of the occasion’s Delhi tormentor AAP even when it meant ideological rival BJP catapulting to energy. They’re betting hopes that AAP’s defeat will finally “open up’ the Delhi house for Congress’ restoration and that the Delhi outcomes can even weaken the AAP in Punjab. However this theoretical argument clashes with the actual fact the Congress has a protracted report of failing-barring a current victory towards BRS – to retrieve bases misplaced to regional events like TMC, RJD, SP, BSP, YSRCP, JMM, and AAP but in addition slipping into the third or fourth ranks in these states. Delhi has now been added to that Congress problem listing.
