Bad show for the Congress, in UP. Cong expected a landslide at the UP electorate with the reigns in the hands of the Gandhi scion, who is featured as the future leader of the nation.
Electoral position as of now at 11am: lead by the parties in UP: SP: 170 BSP: 105 BJP: 55 Cong: 55 others: 16
The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was focused much as the future of India seemed to have gone off board as the UP electorate reveals at the moment. His fight against communalism and uplift of the minorities has fallen on deaf ears. Or rather they were the root cause for the Cong debacle. On the other hand well educated Samajwadi Party legal heir Akhilesh Yadav made headway with his rigorous positive campaign of Free Laptops and Urdu Keyboards that have turned the party’s image from a goon’s party to an intellect outlook. The negative campaign by the Gandhi scion against the autocratic ruling of the BSP did go against the BSP gains but has not aided even to a small extent for the Congress. Another issue that challenged the public was the indirect announcement of Center’s support for a Congress state assembly for development did not go well too.
Unyielding Congress still put up a huge defense and counted the failure into the state’s account and also went on to say that whatever gains were due to the extensive campaigning of the Gandhi Scion. With just 46 leads in 403 constituencies the Congress party has routed its chances in the state.
While the BJP which emerged as a sudden leader in many constituencies, it was losing its grounds in many of the initial leads as results start trickle down. The BJP claimed that the Congress has used the communal card which is very harmful and has succumbed to its own follies.
But protesting Congress protected Rahul Gandhi by sending the State Congress President Rita Bahuguna Joshi, decided to take the responsibility of the debacle. In an early interview today to NDTV, minister Ashwini Kumar said, "we are disappointed by the trends" but praised Mr Gandhi for helping the Congress to "for once be seen as a party in the reckoning for a major role" and for "galvanizing the youth." (With inputs from internet: AarKay)
