Rahul Gandhi started as a Congress Vice President in 2014. The Congress tally came down and Manmohan Singh was ousted.
Since then, the Congress-dynast has been banking on self-pride display and a series of blunders.
Thus, many say Namo's biggest asset is "Rahul Gandhi's blunder" and not necessarily PM's own performance'. Modi has been 'good', Modi has been delivering as a Prime Minister since 2014.
In contrast Rahul's blunders include his self-righteous false allegations which after a do not make any sense even for his party colleagues.
His electoral failures has been in 2019, 2024 and also a series of key assembly elections. In 2021, he could not capture power in Kerala which Congress has been able to do every five years.
Under him, Telangana was a major victory but who is the real villain - the BRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao or Congress leader Revanth Reddy.
The Congress won Karnataka twice - 2017 and also 2022. But governance is poor.
Rahul has been making allegations against Narendra Modi -- Rafale to Veer Savarkar, Pegasus to Hindenburg meaning Gautam Adani and his bg claims China occupying Indian land.
All have been rejected. In other words, Rahul's bravado-mix allegations find no much credence before the electorate and even court of law.
Rahul not only lost states. He even lost a pro-Congress Punjab and instead made way for a new entity called AAP.
Rahul also lost important Congress leaders Capt Amarinder Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Likely a few others will be moving out or rather will be opted out -- Shashi Tharoor will not surprise Congress colleagues themselves.
His latest 'Vote Chori' charge is a good drama and cannot be substantiated.
BJP leader Shehzad Poonawala, who also has migrated from Congress, says: "His (Rahul Gandhi's) hypocrisy is as glaring as his inability to win elections".
Poonawalla also says: "Rahul made a claim about a voter whose EPIC number allegedly appeared in voter lists across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Lucknow.
This was his grand proof of ECI’s manipulation. But when fact-checked using the ECI’s official voter search portal, the results were as embarrassing as a Rahul Gandhi rally.
No such voter, named by Gandhi, was found in Lucknow or Maharashtra’s voter lists by a few fact-checkers in the media. Within half an hour, his grand conspiracy unravelled, revealing nothing but a desperate attempt to deflect from his party’s electoral drubbing and make wild and reckless allegations."
"Unfortunately for Rahul Gandhi, this dramatised PowerPoint presentation turned out to be nothing more than a damp squib that fizzled out faster than his party’s electoral prospects," says the BJP leader.
Union Minister and senior BJP leader Bhupender Yadav mocked Rahul Gandhi's 'disclosure' to back his allegations of rigging in the Maharashtra assembly polls as a case of someone cutting the branch he is sitting on.
He said the Congress and its allies won most of the their seats where the number of voters had increased.
So a case of 'self goal'.
Rahul Gandhi's every claim should be discounted by 60 percent from now on, Yadav said.
Naming a number of assembly constituencies like Madha, Mohol, Nagpur West and Nagpur North won by the Congress and its allies, he said the number of voters went up in these seats.
The argument can be easily built up that Rahul Gandhi’s allegations in cntrast what he intended actually inadvertently would 'bolster' the case for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists.
The EC has already set the ball in motion in Bihar. This is being opposed by the RJD.
By crying foul about fake and duplicate voters, Rahul unwittingly endorses the ECI’s efforts to clean up electoral rolls. Perhaps he missed the memo from his own ally, who recently inadvertently flaunted two EPIC cards/voter IDs in a press conference and went into pretty much the same silence mode when ECI sought details of his claims.
If Rahul is so concerned about voter fraud, why not champion SIR instead of undermining the ECI?
And Rahul is also shy of signing an affidavit as challenged by the Election and Karnataka election department.
One BJP spokesman is absolutely right with this quote:
"Congress should read Ghalib: "Ta umr Ghalib ye bhool karta raha,
dhool chehre pe thi, Ghalib aaina saaf karta raha.
The fault lies not in the mirror but your own reality".
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