Rahul Gandhi is set to face a backlash from within his Congress party after it suffered a mauling for the second Indian general election in a row from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP by DevjyotGhoshal
NEW DELHI - Rahul Gandhi is set to face a backlash from within the main Indian opposition Congress party after it suffered a mauling for a second general election in a row from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party.
As vote-counting trends on Thursday showed Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party winning more than 300 seats against just 49 for Congress, current and former party officials blamed a lacklustre campaign and a failure to overhaul its top team. Still, the 48-year-old Gandhi remains powerful within a party that has ruled India for most of its history since independence from Britain in 1947, and is unlikely to face a leadership challenge immediately.
Five years on, his party has suffered a further beating at the hands of the BJP and he even lost the family borough of Amethi in northern Uttar Pradesh, though he won the second constituency from which he had contested, in southern India. But Congress fumbled communications on key policies, with a publicity campaign this year that escaped the notice even of some of its own workers, and failed to forge pre-election alliances in key states, said the party officials who spoke to Reuters.
The campaign was launched on April 7, just four days before the first round of voting began in a general election spread over seven phases across 39 days.
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