{"id":115537,"date":"2017-12-08T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T04:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=115537"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T04:55:35","slug":"acid-test-rahuls-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/acid-test-rahuls-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Acid test to Rahul&#8217;s leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2017 Gujarat election is only the first among many challenges which Rahul Gandhi will have to handle as the Congress president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gujarat is a straight contest between the Congress and BJP, the former would have to achieve a vote swing of at least 10-11 percentage points in order to defeat the BJP. Can Rahul Gandhi manage this difficult feat?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party suffered a shock defeat in the 2014 elections after two consecutive stints in power. The 2004 and 2009 victories have sort of hidden the larger political challenges facing the Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115540\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/629747-rahul-gandhi-and-narendra-modi-pti-1.jpg\" alt=\"Acid test to Rahul's leadership\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/629747-rahul-gandhi-and-narendra-modi-pti-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/629747-rahul-gandhi-and-narendra-modi-pti-1-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/629747-rahul-gandhi-and-narendra-modi-pti-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP is more capable when it comes to guarding its support base against the Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is Rahul&#8217;s ability which has allowed the present BJP leadership to embark on its mission of creating a Congress Mukth Bharat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot of analysts and politicians will rush to judge Rahul Gandhi\u2019s leadership abilities on the basis of the Gujarat election results, good or bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahul&#8217;s ultimate success or failure, however, would depend on whether or not he can arrest the consistent erosion in his party\u2019s support across the length and breadth of India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78364\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/u.-srinivas-1-3-5.jpg\" alt=\"u.-srinivas-\" width=\"88\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">U.Srinivas<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Editor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Gujarat election is only the first among many challenges which Rahul Gandhi will have to handle as the Congress president. Gujarat is a straight contest between the Congress and BJP, the former would have to achieve a vote swing of at least 10-11 percentage points in order to defeat the BJP. Can Rahul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29597,2],"tags":[59441,350,36956,18,58706,266,305],"class_list":["post-115537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-acid-test-to-rahuls-leadership","tag-bjp","tag-bjp-leadership","tag-congress-president","tag-gujarat-election","tag-modi","tag-rahul-gandhi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/november-district-november-meeting-president-gujarat-congress_2373f02c-d821-11e7-ad30-e18a56154311.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}