New Delhi. Congress’s Chintan Shivir is going to be held in Rajasthan from May 13. Just before that, a certain section of the party is once again trying hard to make Rahul Gandhi the President of the Congress. This faction claims that the party gave good results in the elections when Rahul Gandhi was the Congress President. The English newspaper ‘Hindustan Times’ has given this news. Talking to the newspaper, Praveen Chakraborty, head of the Congress’s data analyst team, told the newspaper that in the last few years, the Congress had given good performance in 2018. At that time Rahul Gandhi was the president. However, the figures testify to the contrary.
Praveen says that this year Rahul Gandhi was looking after the Congress completely as the President and his contribution cannot be denied. Rahul Gandhi was elected as the President of the 137-year-old Congress in the year 2017. After the plight of the Congress for the second time in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and winning only 52 seats, Rahul Gandhi took the responsibility of leaving the president’s post. After that his mother Sonia Gandhi again became the president. However, this time he took over as the working president.
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Those in favor of Rahul say that in the year 2017, it was because of Rahul that the party could win 77 out of 187 seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections. Earlier, from 2014 to 2017, the Congress lost power in Maharashtra and Kerala. If we look at the victory figures of Congress during Rahul’s presidency, then in the year 2018, he formed the government in Karnataka in alliance with JDS, but this government did not last even a year. At the same time, Congress governments were also formed in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, but the government of Madhya Pradesh also fell in 2020.
Even on all this, Rahul’s close friends told the newspaper that when his leader left the post of president, everything fell apart. He also argues that out of 72 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Rahul won 53. Whereas, the history of the past days is telling that Rahul Gandhi had taken command of the assembly elections in Punjab, but the party lost power there too.