Delhi Assembly Polls : Challenges before the Congress By Deepak Parvatiyar December 5, 2014 The beleaguered Congress faces an uphill task in Delhi – not just to rediscover its groove but to prevent complete decimation in the ensuing Assembly election in the city-state. The party, which had won just eight of the 70 seats in last year’s Assembly elections, could not even be the runners-up in any of the Assembly segments in the General Elections this summer. Congress Suffering Electoral Setbacks Pan-India However, the poll outcome in Delhi is not an isolated case as the Congress lost almost everywhere, bagging just 44 seats in the last General Elections. Its obituaries are already being written in its citadels, whether Bihar, Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh. The number of such states where the party is now reduced to a rump is ever growing. There has been a split in the party in Tamil Nadu and its prospects are
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