Haryana election result: Why the knives are in use in the INDIA Congress

On Tuesday, the Congress not only lost Haryana, it also lost its bargaining power. And the knives are out. Than that Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir results Once all the information came in, Congress had to address two long-standing sore points.

The result in Jammu and Kashmir showed that the Congress still needed crutches to climb. The statement from Haryana reinforced the notion that the Congress still failed in a direct fight with the BJP.

These will also have an impact on the three upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Delhi.

In J&K, the Congress entered the fray as a junior ally of the Valley-based National Conference (NC).

While the National Conference won 42 of the 51 seats contested, The Congress won only 6 of the 32 seats.

The Congress will share power in J&K due to its alliance partner, the National Conference. In Jharkhand too, where elections will be held in November, the Congress is the junior partner of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). To remain relevant, it must align with the JMM.

This was a derivative of the J&K poll result.

On the same day, another realization came from Haryana: the Congress failed in a direct fight against the BJP. despite 10 years of anti-incumbency politics against the saffron party.

The Haryana defeat in a head-to-head battle came after defeats in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

That’s what they are The Madhya Pradesh debacle stands out as Congress failed to capitalize on 15 years of anti-incumbency politics in the core state.

The two messages were taken up by the INDIA bloc allies, putting the Congress at a disadvantage at the negotiating table.

“The Congress party also needs to think about its strategy. Because wherever there is a direct fight with the BJP, the Congress party will be weakened. Why is this happening? Revamp the entire alliance…,” Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said on Tuesday.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) is an alliance partner of the Congress in Maharashtra, which goes to the polls next.

After almost doubling its seats to 99 in the Lok Sabha election, the Congress sought to assert itself as the leader of the INDIA bloc.

In September, Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan said that the Congress, the largest in the Maharashtra alliance, should have the privilege of nominating the chief ministerial candidate.

“I have maintained that the largest party should get this privilege and I think the Congress party will be the largest party,” Chavan said at the India Today conclave in Mumbai in September.

This privilege might have been lost after the Haryana election. At least that is what Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi has signaled.

The Congress’s alliance problems are not just limited to Maharashtra. Difficult negotiations will take place in Delhi with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal. Delhi is There will probably be elections before February.

“Let us see what the results are in Haryana. The biggest lesson from this is that one should never be overconfident during elections,” Kejriwal told AAP councilors in New Delhi.

Although Kejriwal spoke to AAP members, it appeared that his words were directed at the Congress.

“Excessive self-confidence” The Congress in Haryana refused to enter into an alliance with the AAP. Kejriwal may be in the mood to return the favor to the Congress in Delhi, where the AAP has impressed with stellar performances in the last two assembly polls.

Tuesday was a sobering lesson for the Congress, which received a boost from the Lok Sabha election and asserted itself as the undisputed leader of the INDIA bloc. With three crucial elections ahead, allies are now questioning the record of a Congress that has lost its bargaining power.