Why Congress Has Only Itself To Blame As I.N.D.I.A Bloc Unravels Ahead Of 2024 LS Polls

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi with I.N.D.I.A bloc leadership share the stage during a protest dharna against the suspension of MPs, in New Delhi on December 22, 2023.

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge made a dramatic statement in Odisha Tuesday that the forthcoming Lok Sabha election will be the “last opportunity for people to save democracy in India”, and that “If Narendra Modi wins another election, there will be dictatorship in the country”. Apart from the defeatist tone implicit in the statement, it begs the question as to what the Congress party has done so far to avert such an eventuality.  Nitish Kumar’s U-Turn