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What do the current trends mean for Congress?

1,444 views · Published 11 December 2018 · 9:46 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: ThePrint · 2018 · News & Politics

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As early trends of the five-state assembly election results pour in, the Congress seems set to snatch Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while Madhya Pradesh continues to be the “takkar ka chunaav (tough battle)” it was expected to be.

Meanwhile, the ruling Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) has taken a comfortable lead in Telangana, and the Congress might lose its only remaining state in the Northeast, Mizoram, with the Mizo National Front (MNF) ahead.

The BJP is a three-term incumbent in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, with a five-year rule in Rajasthan.

For the battered Congress, which has been at its electoral lowest since 2014, a victory in at least two key Hindi heartland states would come as a breather.

This, despite the bitter breakdown of alliance talks with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which was expected to dent the Congress, mainly in Chhattisgarh.



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