Rahul Gandhi's flop show in Bihar
The Bihar mandate is the first decisive denial of 'Rahul factor' on which the congress had pinned its revival hopes when it comes to Hindi heartland.
THE STORY of Bihar has almost become like a Panchatantra story overnight. Congress depending on Gandhi scion Rahul's magic has vanished in air and voters of India proved that they could not depend on Rahul’s charming looks, sugar-coated speeches and crowd pulling capacity. The fact is that voters hardly find any depth in Rahul Gandhi’s statements. In most constituencies where Rahul campaigned, congress candidates came in third, fourth or even further down. His rallies could not even save some sitting MLAs. In his whirlwind campaign, most of his speeches as well as his mother Sonia Gandhi's attacked Nitish's development plank, contending that the Centre gave funds to the state that lay unutilised. That seemed not to have cut much ice with the voters. He was constantly invoking the two Bihar issue, one for rich and other for poor and failed to bridge the gap.
On the other side, Bihar's CM Nitish worked on women development especially for girl child. He claimed that these women would no longer be dictated by caste, or their husband’s preferences; they would vote for development. His prediction came true: the electoral turnout, possibly for the first time, was higher for women than men.
While the Congress has been busy in superciliously spending wasteful money on high corruption in the name of the poor, for example, programmes like NREGA (only 50 per cent of jobs claimed to have been created by the government seem to have actually been created according to NSS figures) and Rahul Gandhi charisma.
For the Congress, now the biggest loser, this would be a genuine wake up call.
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