The verdict of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in India came as a big shot in the arm for the opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his party which won 99 seats, up from just the 52 it had in the last parliament.
By all accounts, party insiders had a best estimate of 70 to 75 seats for the Congress, which has been struggling since the Modi wave of 2014. But the results now show a slow but steady resurgence of the Congress and importantly, the stock of Rahul Gandhi as a leader has shot up.
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By all accounts, party insiders had a best estimate of 70 to 75 seats for the Congress, which has been struggling since the Modi wave of 2014. But the results now show a slow but steady resurgence of the Congress and importantly, the stock of Rahul Gandhi as a leader has shot up.
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00:00One of the big fallouts of the general election in India this year has been the slow and steady
00:09revival of the Congress party and of course the opposition as a whole. Going up from 52
00:14seats to 99 this time, this has been a huge sigh of relief for India's principal opposition
00:19party, which had been staring at a series of setbacks since the Modi wave first came
00:24to India in 2014. And for that, the credit goes to the Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka
00:30and to the Congress president Malik Arjun Kharge. Rahul Gandhi in particular has been
00:34at the receiving end of a lot of vilification when it comes from the BJP, whether it comes
00:41from the mainstream media. And today, in a way, he does stand vindicated. Data that the
00:47Indian Express extrapolated from Rahul Gandhi's two Bharat Jodo yatras, which were conducted
00:52a year apart, show that the Congress and its allies actually did much better along
00:57the Bharat Jodo yatra routes and that itself is significant. And the Congress has done
01:03better in states where it had been almost wiped out last time, like in Maharashtra,
01:07Haryana, Rajasthan, etc. There are of course states where they still continue to do badly
01:13and face a very strong BJP. Gujarat, although they won one seat this time, breaking the
01:19winning streak of the BJP. And then there's Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh. These are still
01:25the Congress's weak spots which they need to focus on. But Rahul Gandhi in particular
01:31has come out really a very different politician from this election. We also saw surprisingly
01:37a Lok Niti CSDS survey done in UP, which actually showed that 36% of respondents in UP preferred
01:45Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister over Narendra Modi at 32%. Now, this was unthinkable perhaps
01:51even a year ago, but it does tell you the changing story of India's opposition and
01:55of the Congress in particular. It is now up to them to keep up the momentum and the heat
02:00on the government and to slowly and steadily continue their revival as well as build up
02:05strategic alliances as they did in this general election.