• Congress leadership stuck in its own incompetence trap


            Congress’s crown prince Rahul Gandhi has continued to level allegations against the Election Commission over the Maharashtra election results. Unable to digest the defeat in Maharashtra, Rahul Gandhi has targeted the Election Commission. Rahul Gandhi has continued to make a series of false allegations against the Election Commission, saying that the voter turnout in Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ Nagpur South constituency has increased by 8 percent.

            Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, while dispelling Rahul Gandhi’s allegations, presented the statistics of the increase in voters in the constituencies of the Congress- Sharad Pawar led faction’s MLAs. After the results of the assembly elections were announced, the dreams of UBT, senior leader Sharad Pawar and the national leadership of the Congress were shattered.

            Due to the success of the Lok Sabha elections, the leaders of the MVA were living in the belief that they had also won the assembly elections. The leaders of the MVA were not ready to accept that the success in the Lok Sabha elections was an accident. Even a senior leader like Sharad Pawar forgot that such accidents do not happen frequently in politics. Crown Prince Rahul Gandhi’s flight had soared as he won 99 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.

            Rahul Gandhi, who is under the illusion that winning 99 seats is a testament to and victory for his leadership, has been living with many such misconceptions about himself. The propaganda of constitutional amendment, the atmosphere of terror created by urban Naxalite forces in many sections of society had an impact on the Lok Sabha elections. The issue of the forms distributed by the Congress to attract voters in the Lok Sabha election campaign came to light after the results. The Haryana assembly elections were held after the Lok Sabha elections. In that election, the voters gave the Congress a shock .

            The air of the propaganda of constitutional amendment had cleared during the Haryana elections. To win the elections, special effort has to be made on the organizational side. The organization has to pay attention to many things like registration of new voters, corrections in the names in the old voter list, registration of young people voting for the first time, exclusion of names of deceased voters. The Congress organization has not been in the habit of paying attention to such issues for many years. Due to the influence of Mrs.

            Indira Gandhi, the Congress got a large majority in the Lok Sabha elections in 1971 and 1980 as well as in the assembly elections of many states. Until the 1970s, the Congress organization was significantly active from Vilaages to Delhi. Many activities like registration of party members, study camps for leaders and workers were carried out by the Congress. Mrs. Indira Gandhi gradually dismantled the Congress party organization. The groups that served the Nehru-Gandhi family started gaining respect and position in the government and the organization.

            Thanks to Pandit Nehru’s grace, Mrs. Indira Gandhi got an important position in Congress. However, after that, Mrs. Indira Gandhi had to struggle a lot while establishing her leadership. And in the post-Emergency elections, Mrs. Indira Gandhi returned to the masses after being jolted by the electorate. Rahul Gandhi is not used to doing politics by struggling in this way. Therefore, he has taken up a one-point program to level all allegations against the Election Commission. With this, he wants to cover up the flaws in his leadership. Mrs. Indira Gandhi recognized the discontent among the voters due to the differences in the Janata Party.

            Indira Gandhi appealed to the voters using this same issue. Rahul Gandhi’s leadership has repeatedly failed to attract voters to the Congress. Rahul Gandhi was the Congress’s chief campaigner in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Since then, Rahul Gandhi has been consistently rejected by the voters.

            Congress won the assembly elections in states like Karnataka and Telangana due to the struggle of the local leadership. Rahul Gandhi has not contributed anything to this victory. Instead of finding out the reasons why the voters are consistently rejecting him and changing his behavior accordingly, Rahul Gandhi has adopted the crooked path of propaganda.

            Rahul Gandhi is trying to create unrest and dissatisfaction among the voters by spreading absolute false information. A few months ago, Rahul Gandhi crossed all limits of falsehood while participating in the debate on the President’s address in the Lok Sabha. During the debate, Rahul Gandhi raised questions on the Agniveer scheme and alleged that martyr status is not given in the central government’s Agniveer scheme. Apart from this, he had alleged that the families of martyred Agniveer soldiers were not given assistance either.

            At this time, Rahul Gandhi mentioned the martyred Agniveer Akshay Gawate of Buldhana. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said in the Lok Sabha that Rahul Gandhi’s allegation was completely false. Also, after Rahul Gandhi’s claim, the father of martyr Agniveer Laxman Gawate said that he had received a total of Rs 1 crore 10 lakh in assistance so far. Even after that, Rahul Baba continued his false narrative.

            Saying, ‘The protection of truth is the basis of every religion!’ Rahul Gandhi had claimed on the social media platform X that the family of martyred firefighter Ajay Singh had not received any financial assistance from the army. The very next day after Rahul Gandhi made this claim, Ajay Singh’s father clarified that he had received compensation from the army. A video of Ajay Singh’s father Charanjit Kala, requesting not to politicize this issue, went viral on social media.

            Following the results of the Maharashtra assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi has continued his business of spreading false information with the sole intention of creating distrust and suspicion among the people about the government and the system. The Election Commission has given detailed and to the point answers to every question of Rahul Gandhi. Still, he has not stopped his false narrative.

            Instead of adopting the challenging path of going into the masses and undergoing the struggle to build an organization, the prince has chosen this path. Since he has no real accomplishments or merit, he is caught in the web of false and fabricated narratives and it has now become immensely difficult for him to get out of it.

     

    (Article Pre-Published in Times of India Online – 30 June, 2025) 

    Keshav Upadhye, Chief Spokesperson 

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