Left-liberal brigade is now targeting Congress party

As the exit poll results are out and it is increasingly evident that Congress’ performance has been abysmal, the frustration of the left-liberal brigade has reached to new heights. Unsubstantiated allegations against EVMs or their attacks on Election Commission, the exit poll results favoring NDA, have led to a severe meltdown of the left-liberal brigade. Now, it seems the frustration has reached to a new proportion as the brigade has started targeting the very party they were rooting and indirectly campaigning for. The trend started after the comments made by Yogendra Yadav after exits polls from various polling organizations predicted a repeat of the embarrassing defeat for the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls, poured in. After Yogendra Yadav, various other journalists and other sympathizers of the Congress joined in.

Yogendra Yadav had tweeted: “The Congress must die. If it could not stop the BJP in this election to save the idea of India, this party has no positive role in Indian history. Today it represents the single biggest obstacle to creation of an alternative.”

These comments coming from Yogendra Yadav who is considered close to Congress matriarch Sonia Gandhi has surely sent ripples down in the pseudo-liberal ecosystem. Yogendra Yadav out rightly calling for Congress to ‘die’ is just another indication of the frustration that had built over the campaigning period this election.

Hartosh Singh Bal the senior editor of the Caravan magazine also joined in the train with Yogendra Yadav to attack the Congress over its failure to execute a successful electoral campaign.

 “A week from now if the results end up making us suffer Modi in power again it will only be because the cong has spectacularly failed to hold its own in a direct contest with the BJP. The regional parties have more than done their job. … the most wasteful use of print and television in these elections on an inconsequential campaign – the unending coverage of Priyanka Gandhi”

Hartosh Singh Bal in his tweet also pointed at the Congress’ skewed focus to project Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The newly inducted Priyanka Gandhi had been at the centre stage of the Congress campaigns however as evident from the Exit polls predictions she has colossally failed to make any impact.

Sagarika Ghosh another journalist known for her closeness with the Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra family also attacked Congress and raised questions on its campaign.

Rana Ayyub another journalist who has evidently has been a Congress supporter, in an article written for the controversial Al Jazeera network of Qatar, had also trained her guns not only at the Congress but also its top leadership which includes Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Congress matriarch Sonia Gandhi. In the article titled “Has India’s opposition failed?” she writes.

“Exit polls in India have been proven wrong in the past, as happened in 2004, when they failed to predict a Congress victory. But, unlike 2004, the palpable sentiment on the ground is that the country has no alternative to the ruling party. Rahul Gandhi tried hard, and so did his allies, but he failed to convince the Indian voter that he could be the alternative for a country that urgently needs economic and social reforms.”

This rising desperation and frustration in the left-liberal brigade are surely being indicated by these bleeps of outburst, Rahul Gandhi who has been seen as a hopeful alternative to the PM Modi by these people has now even lost the respect of his media coterie.