Were Gujarat Election results a "moral victory" for the Congress party?

Life teaches us lessons every single day. Smart people learn them and make good progress. However, some people just do not learn a single thing, in spite of the same lesson getting repeated in front of them. One of such is Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress party got 77 seats out of 182 in the recently held Gujarat Assembly elections. Although they registered a gain of 16 seats over the last result of 2012 (in which the got 61), it was a clear-cut defeat for them. Yet Mr. Rahul Gandhi said yesterday that it was a "moral" victory for the congress party as they could gain 16 seats and snatch them from the ruling BJP!! Instead of making "aatma-chintan" (soul-searching) as to why they could not manage to get to the majority mark of 92 and finding reasons for falling short by 12 seats to that decisive figure, he claimed that it was a moral victory for the Congress. This is the main difference between a loser and winner. A winner, when he loses suddenly, does not boast in a rather bizarre manner that he has gained a moral victory although he lost. He will start the process of soul searching within himself and everything that comes under him. He wants to learn all the time, especially his own shortcomings - where he went wrong, how he went wrong and what should be done to rectify that mistake. Even Rahul's own grand mother Lt. Smt. Indira Gandhi would have done the same thing. But look at this foolish guy. He still is busy with self-indulgence and patting his own back. Under his leadership, the Congress party has fought 30 elections so far, small and big, starting from Loksabha seats to State Assembly elections and what is the scorecard reading like? Won in zero and lost in 30. Amazing track-record, Rahul baba, you have!! He has reduced the Congress party from having some reputation and strength to a party which now faces total threat of becoming obsolete from national politics, if this continues for some more time.
The fundamental questions are, in spite of all these losses, why is the Congress party not doing any thing about its leadership? Why did it take that self-destructive decision of electing him as the next President? Is there a total vaccum of able leaders within the Congress now, who can deliver the goods and make them win once again? It is very clear now that if Rahul Gandhi continues to lead them in the forthcoming assembly elections of Karnataka and Mizoram, again the same destiny awaits them. I am no big fan of the Congress party but as an individual who wants to see a strong and healthy opposition, I would like to visualize that this 132 year old political party, in spite of all the corruption it has done in the last decade, gets up to the job and refurnishes its lost image now. Especially when it has been reduced to a presence of ruling in just 5 states in India as compared to 18 a decade ago.

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