Why Congress Lost Rajasthan

I worked as a campaign manager for the Congress party in the 2023 Rajasthan assembly elections. I want to put on record some observations about the fascinating politics of this state.

The BJP wrested Rajasthan on Sunday, winning 115 seats out of the 199 where polling took place as the Congress failed to buck the state's three-decade revolving-door trend in which the voters reject the party in power.

The Lok Janshakti Party (LIP) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) have urged the BJP leadership to stop making personal attacks on Congress President Rahul Gandhi, saying this was one reason why the BJP lost Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland.

By-elections will be held next month to two parliament seats in Uttar Pradesh that the BJP will mark as must-win. Not only because it just lost two parliament seats to the Congress in bye-elections held in Rajasthan, but also because these are seats vacated by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya when they moved to ...

I worked as a campaign manager for the Congress party in the 2023 Rajasthan assembly elections. I want to put on record some observations about the fascinating politics of this state.

The BJP wrested Rajasthan on Sunday, winning 115 seats out of the 199 where polling took place as the Congress failed to buck the state's three-decade revolving-door trend in which the voters reject the party in power.

The Lok Janshakti Party (LIP) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) have urged the BJP leadership to stop making personal attacks on Congress President Rahul Gandhi, saying this was one reason why the BJP lost Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland.

By-elections will be held next month to two parliament seats in Uttar Pradesh that the BJP will mark as must-win. Not only because it just lost two parliament seats to the Congress in bye-elections held in Rajasthan, but also because these are seats vacated by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya when they moved to ...