Would Rahul be the PM material in 2019 after the Congress’s worst drubbing in Karnataka

I am sure that many progressive minded persons and those believing in the core ideology of Congress party would disagree with me when I would say that the Nehru Gandhi scion and the dashing Congress president 47 year old Rahul Gandhi despite his best energetic efforts, special zeal, enthusiasm and fighting spirit has proved futile against the magical charismatic leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi.

Why I am saying this is not because I am a sympathiser of the ruling party or profess the saffron ideology but because right from 2014 after Narendra Modi took the cudgels of the BJP led NDA government in his hand as the prime minister with absolute majority the Congress party has been steadily n consistently losing one state after another, shockingly now left with one one big state Punjab n a neglible Mizoram. And the fact remains that Congress president Rahul Gandhi had done his job extremely well and with dexterity as far as extensive campaigning for the Congress party was concerned in all the states even in UP ruled by the Samajwadi party.

Today Modi’s jaggernaut has crushed the Congress in Karnataka too coming triumphant as the single largest party defeating the former and conveniently able to form the government on its own. While the BJP victory has added a strong flavour of moral bossting in its entire rank and file of the country, the Congress party’s shameful defeat has compelled the party workers hide their faces behind the doors. After all what’s special in prime minister Narendra Modi and his close confident BJP chief Amit Shah and their policies that their juggernaut is incessantly on a winning spree since 2014 having reduced every non BJP opposition party to rubble with Mamta Banerjee’s party and government being an exception.

Whether it was Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Assam or Gujarat n now Karnataka the Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi has campaigned extensively and countered every statement and political move of the prime minister Modi and his party whether it was demonetisation, GST, foreign policy issues, issues of communal hatred, women issues and increasing inflation but in every state elections his logics and eloquent speeches badly backfired thus making the saffron party victorious in all the states where electionswere held after 2014 since Narendra Modi assumed the charge of the country as its prime minister.

The Modi sympton and magic had been so powerful and effective that even the left citadel of CPM in Tripura, for the last twenty five years was demolished by Modi’s saffron juggernaut where as in the last electios, all the BJP candidates had lost their security deposit. However, in the recently held byelections in Gorakhpur and Sitapur where the Samajwadi party won handsdown in the BJP’s home turf it was hugely felt that the saffron party’s chances of winning would see a downfall in the near future.

The Congress too had won in the two parliamentary byelections in Rajasthan a year ago given an unambiguous impression that Modi’s charisma is diminishing rapidly. But the one sided victory in Karnataka has again compelled his opponents to think that his chances of re come back in 2019 seems to be imminent. Now the moot point is has the Congress party really started vanishing from the political scene of the country due to Nehru Gandhi scion’s consistent underestimation by the electorates of the country or is it that the entire country is today in the grip of majoritarianism of the Saffron party who ( electorates) are in no mood to see Modi’s defeat at the hustings.

The entire opposition of the country including Rahul Gandhi has been targetting the prime minister and his government on unemployment, inflation, demonetisation, GST and agrarian crisis front on increasing farmers suicides and non fixation of the adequate procurement prices including wastage of public exchequers money on useless foreign trips but all in vain. There have been national outrage and anti media hype on Kathua rape and killing, murders of journalists, killing the voice of freedom of speech n expression, skyrocketting inflation and failure on bringing back black money from foreign banks but nothing happens.

The BJP finally wins in Karnataka as it won in 21 states earlier diluting every issue raised by the oppposition parties of the country. The point is if its not the faikure of Rahul Gandhi’s leadership then whats the actual reason? Is it the blind wave of saffronisation polarising the majority community votes or votes for Modi’s people friendly policies despite so much of resistence on several pivotal fronts. I leave the answer to the intelligent peoole of the country.

Political analysts however say that the way Modi juggernaut is crushing the Congress and other non BJP governments in every state till now during the last four years it almost seems clear that 2019 is his though there may be decrease in the number of BJP seats as compared to the present tally. The entire show however depends on the unificatiin of the anti BJP oppositiin at the national level and an unanimous choice of a prime ministerial candidate to be projected against Narendra Modi. Whats your take friends?