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 Gand hi 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 ...
