India’s main opposition Congress has suffered from a weak campaign and fumbled communications. An inability to sew up alliances with other opposition groups also hurt the party by DevjyotGhoshal More on IndiaElections2019:
JAIPUR, India - In January, India’s main opposition Congress party seemed poised for a strong fight back against Prime Minister Narendra Modi after victories in three heartland states late last year.
Two Congress officials told Reuters that their campaign, centred around a promise of a handout of 72,000 rupees every year for India’s poorest families, was rolled out late — only four days before the first phase of the polls began on April 11. Congress has also been unable to forge alliances with other opposition parties in two important states and adequately overhaul its grassroots organisation, political strategists said, making an already difficult contest even harder.
There are a whole series of regional and caste-based parties that could benefit from any such anti-Modi swing as much as Congress. If that happens, a coalition of parties might form the next government with Congress a powerful force in that though not necessarily calling all the shots. “I think if anybody has gained in this election campaign it is Mr Gandhi, if anybody has lost ground in the election campaign it is Mr Modi,” he told Reuters. “I think BJP will suffer huge losses.”
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