One Point Oh feels the Congress needs to introspect on what went wrong in Gujarat:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.Given the fact that the entire reversal of the agenda for these elections was because of that fateful speech by Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party will find conducting a post-mortem finger pointing exercise a trifle tough. Will anybody in the Congress stand up and question the wisdom of speaking words that nearly sealed the party’s fate that too when things were going in its favour? One thinks not, but in the ultimate analysis, that single phrase may have well cost the party an election that they could have wrested out of Modi’s control. The election results, if we assume the exit polls to be correct, will also speak poorly of the new Congress troika of Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi. All three, touted as the face of secularism, development and a secure future, fared poorly.
That speech was only the icing on the cake which had been baked by Tehelka. I have written already on the subject and will write in detail again after the results are formally out.
from the begining itself, congress’s campaign was nothing less than a fiasco. from time to time they kept on reassuring that their whole campaign should benefit Modi. Only a miracle can save congress in Gujarat, and miracles do happen, but not when all your energies are working in the opposite direction.
http://www.zhagdoo.com/2007/12/18/a-campaign-lost/