Can Rahul Gandhi lead the Congress to 2019 polls? Can he take on the mighty Narendra Modi. Will the party survive till 2019 ?Top journalists said that the BJP will be very happy that Rahul Gandhi is being elevated as the President of the congress party.
In 2019 again the issue of the PM candidate will come and Rahul is no match for Modi. The Congress is not grooming anyone else either and no strong candidate to beat Modi can be produced overnight.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party got a mere 44 seats. The congress party has lost power in 14 states. While that seems wildly optimistic for BJP supporters, the fact remains that with the Congress appears to be heading for total collapse by 2019.
There are cases against senior Congress leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram, Virbhadra Singh, Shashi Tharoor, Oommen Chandy, Mallikarjun Kharge, Veerappa Moily, Karti Chidambaram,Ashok Chavan, Bhoopinder Singh Hooda and damad Robert Vadra.
This will put Congress severely on the back foot and Modi can claim victory in his war against corruption.
If the Congress continues hungama in parliament, they will totally lose support and the president may be forced to sign more ordinances and call joint sessions of Parliament to pass bills, thereby nullifying the grand old party.
Funding to the Congress has hit an all-time low and their reserves are drying up.
By 2016 end, the BJP will emerge as the single-largest party. In 2018, the BJP-Congress lead will widen even further.
Once BJP leads in both houses, it will be full steam ahead and the Congress will have its wings clipped.
In future BJP will lead in LS, RS and state assemblies and therefore dominate the electoral college to push its own candidates. The vice president heads the RS, so it will dominate that too in 2017.
Nobody knows what Modi does as he keeps his cards close to his chest and he’s the shrewdest political operator in India. Modi’s 2014 strategy decimated Congress to 44 seats
You could say that the Congress seems bent upon destroying itself.
U.Srinivas
Editor
