Question time again for Rahul, Cong: Who's to blame for yet another defeat?

Apart from Rahul Gandhi himself losing from Amethi, the party's entire top leadership in Karnataka (including Mallikarjuna Kharge and senior leaders like B K Hariprasad) was defeated

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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and leader Rajeev Shukla during the party President Rahul Gandhi’s press conference following the Lok Sabha polls results, at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday | Photo: PTI

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : May 24 2019 | 3:28 AM IST

The Congress’s precipitous defeat in the Lok Sabha election has many top leaders of the party wondering if it will still be around or whether the BJP has attained its objective of ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’. The party that hovered around 50 seats, marginally more than the 45 in the last Lok Sabha, managed to get seats primarily in Punjab and south India (four in Telangana, eight in Tamil Nadu and 19 in Kerala).

“We seriously have to introspect. It is time for a complete organisational overhaul,” said a party contestant from Tamil Nadu, who was leading his rivals. The party had

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