Comments by "Kshitij Bhambri" (@KshitijBhambri1) on "How Congress became the incredible vanishing party after 1984, In data u0026 graphics" video.

  1. Congress couldn't counter "Mandir vs Mandal" Politics in UP-Bihar as it was a "Big Tent" Party and not particularly one sided and lost them in 1989-90 under ND Tiwari & Jagannath Mishra to Janata Dal(Today's SP,RJD,JDU,LJP,BJD,INLD,JJP,JDS,etc)respectively(both Brahmin CMs, Interestingly last Brahmin CMs too till now of Both states as BJP has never made Brahmin CM in UP and has never even had a Cm in Bihar till now and Lalu is Yadav while Nitish is Kurmi): Many Brahmins do feel let down by BJP and still have some soft sympathy for Congress as all 6 Brahmin CMs of UP have been from Congress: BJP's CMs : Kalyan Singh was OBC, Ramprakash Gupta a Baniya and Rajnath-Yogi are Thakurs and Mulayam-Akhilesh Yadavs and Mayawatia Dalit. And Bihar has only been roughly "2 CM game" since 1990 barring Rabri Devi & Jitan Manjhi who were "Puppets" only. Congress though had very good UP Lok Sabha election 2009 under MMS-RaGa(One of his 3 Electoral Achievements: Other 2 being Bringing BJP down to 99 in Gujarat 2017 and Winning Raj-MP-Chh in 2018)vs Mayawati Govt as BJP-SP both were down then. It had a Voter Base of "Extreme Opposite Social Groups" like Brahmins-Dalits-Muslims in UP-Bihar and KHAM in Gujarat, though it couldn't win since losing in 1990 to Janata Dal-BJP alliance, although it has increased both: Votes & Seats in Vidhan Sabha since 2002 from 51 in 2002 to 59 in 2007 to 61 in 2012 to 77(+3=80 in alliance)in 2017. Congress has played second fiddle to RJD since 2000. In WB, even after losing in 1977 under Siddharth Shankar Ray1996 Elections were very good for Congress but Mamata became restless and wanted to ally with BJP to remove CPM from power, Pranab Mukherjee didn't let that and she broke away and allied with BJP in 1998 and was with them till 2008 barring 2001 when she left the alliance but rejoined again, then came to UPA before 2009 LS elections and won 19 LS seats(INC won 6,so total 25). In 2011, it won 226 in Alliance(184 TMC, 42 INC) but Mamata was angry when Rahul didn't come on her Oathtaking as he had gone to Omar Abdullah's swearing in in J&K in 2008, also INC has had it's own CMs there: last being Ghulam Nabi Azad. Mamata then broke away from UPA for non issue in 2012 and now wants to take Congress with Pawar. Although, INC did mistake by allying with Left as Left workers have killed many Congress'is and also Left is enemy of Cong in Kerala& Tripura. n Maharashtra, it ruled for always(except Pawar breaking away in 1978 but again coming back) except 1995-99 and 2014-2019, although with it's own offshoot NCP from 1999-2014 with CM and since 2019 in MVA. In South, Congress was good lately till 2014 too except TN where it lost power to Dravidian Parties(DMK first) in 1967 and then allied with them although their offshoot under GK Moopanar, Jayanti Natarajan and P Chidambaram looked Strong and won a lot with DMK in 1996 but that party ended with PC and Natarajan coming back to INC & Moopanar Passing away. Since then, It has always played a Second Fiddle to DMK. In Andhra, It shot itself not in Foot but in Head by first letting Jagan go after YSR's death by not letting him becoming CM, just to don't make it look like " Dynastic Succession"(I mean, Seriously?) and then dividing Andhra hurriedly and not even focusing on Telangana and KCR betraying Sonia by not merging his party within INC even after Formation of INC, even though he promised her as he is from INC only, Then allying with age old rival TDP to fight TRS in 2018, and it made INC lose Telangana in 2018 as Telangana people hate TDP, like Andhra people now hate INC. Also, INC hasn't tried to bring back Jagan or ally with YSRCP till now. Although in Telangana, under Revanth Reddy, it's Growing Strong but let's see what it can do. In Kerala, It couldn't win in 2021 just due to KC Venugopal as whole Kerala INC feared that he will be made CM if INC wins as he is close to Rahul. He was the only who didn't fight 2019 LS election when UDF won 19/20(INC 15/16) and only his own Constituency was lost: Alapuzzha, which was won by CPM, from where he had won in 2014. In Karnataka, JDS voters and Cadre is moving to Congress. In Lakshadweep,it wins or NCP wins, in Andaman it won. In Puducherry, it lost due to V Narayansamy and not retaining N Rangaswamy although murmurs are that Govt could fall there. In North East, Raga did opposite of what he did in Andhra, this time with Himanta Biswa Sarma, making him angry to save CM seat for his friend Gaurav Gogoi, son of Veteran Tarun Gogoi: this time a dynast and he left and has caused huge damage to Congress there by taking away it's govts first in Arunachal and Manipur and not letting it form in Meghalaya and Bringing MNF,NPF(old BJP ally though),NDPP, SKM into NEDA. Relation with NPP is complex as it's a " National Party" under Conrad Sangma: son of COngress Veteran and NCP leader and then NPP Founder PA Sangma, who had fallout with Sonia Gandhi in 1999 and left along with Sharad Pawar and Tariq Anwar, and formed NCP, although NCP allied with INC that year only to form Govt in Maharashtra in 1999 and Tariq returned to INC in 2017 after being MP from Bihar. Sangma lost 2012 Presidential election to Pranab Mukherjee. INC couldn't win Assam and HBS has his people as MLAs in INC too to keep Amit Shah in check as he knew it won't be easy to become CM by sidelining someone as simple as Sarbananda Sonowal. Also, Sushmita Dev, previous and at that time President of Mahila Congress Nationally, left to join TMC. Although except for Cachar region and in Tripura, from where her father Santosh Dev too fought, she can't win as TMC has a "Bengali Identity" Appeal which Whole North East people desist. In Manipur, it lost as it couldn't form Govt in 2017 and this time lost in 2022 as NPP,JDU also took votes. In Meghalaya it lost after 10 years although it won 20 seats but 12 joined TMC as Mukul Sangma couln't be stopped by RaGa. Though, as per 2019 LS Election divided into Vidhan Sabha segments, INC was ahead in 36/60 seats as it won Shillong under Vincent Pala and now can ally with NPP:It's offshoot only as they are now opposition even in Manipur and BJP is nothing in Meghalaya too and Ameera Lyngdoh joined his Govt there although they are still from INC. In Mizoram, Lal Thanhawla, 5 term CM has retired and Zoramthanga has bitter relations with HBS due to Mizo-Assam issue. So, INC can win Arunachal, Meghalaya, Mizoram. Also, it took away BJP MLAs in Tripua: Operation conducted by Priyanka. In Haryana, Rajasthan,MP, Chhattisgarh, HP,Uttarakhand, It's still strong. In Goa, it couldn't form govt in 2017 and this time vote got divided. In Delhi, In Lok Sabha, INC was 2nd and AAP 3rd. In Punjab, even India Today Mood of The Nation showed that people of Punjab will vote INC in Lok Sabha and not AAP : Same as in Kerala. In UP, it was PGV who played role of Opposition along with State Prez Ajay Lallu and not SP,Akhilesh but they got Anti BJP Vote. But Many said that they can vote Priyanka in 2024. Also, she is Politically more sharp than Raga and saved Rajasthan Govt. Also, Scindia, Jitin, RPN too are dynasts and let's see what they can bring into BJP. Scindia isn;t even liked in Gwalior:n his own Kingdom and barely managed to break 27/114 MLAs in MP,87 stayed with Kamal Nath-Diggi and even then only 16 won. In Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot has realised after his Adventures that he won't get anything in BJP as he could get only 12/108 MLAs and now only 5 Remain with him. In Punjab, all wanted Capt. Amarinder Singh out, although Backup Plan should have been ready on who to be made CM.
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