The challenge that the Congress faces at present is it has to fight not just internal dissidence and the BJP but deal with anti-BJP regional parties, who are no longer seeing it as a viable ally.
NEW DELHI: With the results of five assembly polls delivering a chastening blow to BJP s electoral juggernaut and virtually decimating its main rival Congress, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee s massive victory over the formidable saffron machinery may help bring regional satraps to the fore of the national politics yet again, analysts believe.
Under flak from the opposition for its government s handling of the Covid-19 crisis, the BJP s big loss in West Bengal polls has denied the party a face-saver it might have hoped for to claim the popular endorsement for its policies and has lent further ballast to the view that it often falls short against a popular regional force.