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The bad blood in Congress over the party leadership has provided ammunition to the Shiva Sena to ask the grand old party to set its house in order  

 MP CM Shivraj Singh has said ‘no one can save Congress’ as the infighting in the grand old party came to the fore 

Another headache brewing for the grand old party as six of its sitting MLAs in the Manipur State Assembly have tendered their resignation and quit the party

Sachin Pilot meeting Rahul Gandhi and deciding to continue with the party is a welcome sign for the grand old party

 

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has offered to resign, a day after Sachin Pilot called truce with the grand old party
 

Former Karnataka chief minister Kumaraswamy has questioned the Congress’s move to merge 6 BSP MLAs in Rajasthan even as the grand old party holds a ‘Speak for Democracy’ protest

Two loyal Congressmen – Sanjay Nirupam and Sanjay Jha – have put out tweets, questioning the working style of the Congress 

Though the Congress party is posing itself to be an epitome and exemplar of peace and prosperity, there are allegations that the grand old party is wilfully abetting riots through its inflammable and incendiary speeches right throughout the anti-CAA protests.   

Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra has already witnessed a clash after NCP and Shiv Sena slammed Congress as the grand old party released a booklet which claims that there was a physical relationship between Nathuram Godse and Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Exit polls have shown the exit door for the Congress in Maharashtra and Haryana. What does this mean for the Congress? 
 

In 2014, Alka Lamba quit the Congress to be a part of Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), but returned to the Congress after five years. The former AAP MLA had earlier met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, which had fuelled speculations of her joining the grand old party.
            

Implosion in the Congress has cost it dearly with Ashok Tanwar, ex-Haryana chief quitting the party. 

The grand old party seems to be losing its leaders, with some joining the opposition, some in jail and the rest busy protesting and fighting with leaders of their own party. Will the grand old party regain its grandeur in the near future?

After P.V. Narasimha Rao stepped down as president of the Congress in September 1996, Kesri was appointed as the new president of the grand old party

The Congress that once got 404 seats in the first Lok Sabha election in 1952, started shrinking after Indira Gandhi's assassination to a sorry 44 in 2014. The number was so bad that it made the Congress' performance of 1977 look better when people for the first time voted out the grand old party with 153 seats. Is Congress losing significance in India's electoral polity?