Two big weapons of Congress fizzle out. It needs new ones for 2024
Congress in three state polls yesterday holds grave ramifications for its 2024 Lok Sabha campaign. There may be no direct correlation between a party's performance in assembly polls and the Lok Sabha polls that occur shortly after, but these elections do matter for both the winner BJP and the Congress so far as strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls is concerned.
For the Congress, the poll results leave difficult lessons.
Barely five months before the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress defeat in the state polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will force it to rethink its strategy.
That should be par for the course for any party but not when so little time is left.
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The shock defeat of the Congress in Chhattisgarh where it was positioned to win; its utter slide in Madhya Pradesh where it was seen as a strong challenger; and its failure to hold on to Rajasthan will require a radical reconfiguration of its poll strategy for the next Lok Sabha elections.
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- Madhya Pradesh
- Rajasthan
- Telangana
- Chhattisgarh
- Mizoram
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At the centre of such an exercise would be a reevaluation of its two weapons of choice.
After the Congress won Karnataka elections in May this year, it seemed the party had tested a new weapon and it had worked. It experimented by promising a raft of freebies targeted at different segments of the voter population along with
