End-Game

For a while, everyone got excited, and began speculating about the revival of the Congress, reuniting all the factions which had gone out of the party and a triumphant return of this shrewd leader who will unseat Deve Gowda etc. The Punjab results, however, are the real pointer to the future of the Congress. Imposing a new chief minister on a state Congress government used to be all right in the old days when the Congress Working Committee (CWC) had some real clout. Now it only rebounds back. Congress has managed to lose practically all of North India