Congress continues to vanish from India’s political panorama

The grand outdated get together which is struggling to search out its relevance is slowly disappearing from Indian political panorama. On twenty second February 2021, the V Narayanasamy authorities in Puducherry did not show majority and subsequently collapsed. With this, solely three states in India have a Congress chief minister: Punjab, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Congress has alliance authorities in states like Jharkhand and Maharashtra, however everyone knows how Maharashtra is coping below the ‘best chief minister’.
Let that sink in.
After 2014 Lok Sabha elections when the BJP fashioned a full majority authorities at Centre, Congress had majority authorities in 9 states and was an alliance companion in 4 states.
Now, Congress has full majority in solely two states, Punjab and Chhattisgarh, and alliance companion in three states, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan.
In 2018 state meeting elections, Congress fashioned majority authorities in Chhattisgarh whereas alliance authorities in Rajasthan, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Since then, Karnataka authorities led by JDS’ H D Kumaraswamy collapsed in July 2019, in simply over a yr of forming the federal government. Similarly, Madhya Pradesh authorities led by Kamal Nath collapsed in March 2020, after insurgent Congress leaders led by now BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia stop Congress en masse and joined the BJP.
In the North East, BJP has fashioned alliance authorities in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
Meanwhile, Punjab, which is likely one of the solely two states Congress has full majority authorities, goes to polls subsequent yr in 2022.