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Chef Vivek Singh Chef Vikram Sunderam
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The historic and sweeping mandate given to Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) – the right-of-the-centre nationalist party - in the
country's general election 2014, certainly made it Narendra Modi’s year. However, Congress saw its
worst-ever election result. The party won just 44 seats in India's
543-member parliament. Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, the two
senior-most figures in the party, offered to resign, but the Congress
Working Committee refused to accept their resignation.
A party that won seven out of India’s first eight
elections, Congress’ crushing defeat in the 2014 elections stunned even its
severest critics. Their defeat has been attributed to inflation, corruption
scandals, and a sharp economic slowdown. Or did they fail to connect with
the restless 150 million first-time eligible voters, hungry for
opportunities? SALT met with two eminent leaders of the Congress
party – Dr Shashi Tharoor, and Mr. Manish Tewari -for their views on the
party’s poor performance in the 2014 general Elections, and the
course-correction required for the way forward.
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