In December 11, the Congress evicted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from office in three substantial Hindi-heartland states. It was a good day at the races. It was also a necessary outing.
The minimum that the party needed to fend off political extinction was two out of three provinces in the cow-belt corridor. A sweep of all three was better than the bare minimum, but after its rout in Telangana, the landslide in Chhattisgarh felt like solvency, not riches. At the beginning of 2018, the Congress ruled Mizoram, Puducherry and Karnataka. With general elections less than a ...
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