Rahul Gandhi has done his level best, but his tenure as Congress President starts with two losses. And till he wins his party an election, all the gloss in the world won’t change that harsh reality.
Rahul the new chief needs to worry about Karnataka, the only large state apart from Punjab that it still rules. Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will put the BJP on test but, the Congress is still to get its act together.
Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan and Jyotiraditya Scindia in MP are looking at Rahul to name them as Chief Ministerial faces.
Modi and Shah managed to defeat 22 years of anti-incumbency in Gujarat because Modi and Shah gave it their all. Can Rahul Gandhi sustain the kind of campaign he ran in Gujarat is a question anxious Congress leaders are asking.
Finally, the Gujarat voters ensured that they sent a warning message to Modi. Let’s hope he will make the corrections needed in the run-up to 2019.
