(This story originally appeared in

on Jun 3, 2019)
MUMBAI: The
Maharashtra Congress is floundering, spooked by the results in the state where it won just one out of 26 seats it contested in an alliance with the
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
The party brass met last Thursday to review its dismal poll performance in
Lok Sabha 2019 and many seem to have pressed the panic button regarding the future.
Maharashtra is set to go to polls after three months and leaders fear the party may not even get the 42 seats that it got last time. “We could follow Andhra Pradesh where the
Congress has no presence,”said a senior Congress leader from Mumbai