[Thread] After the 2017 Gujarat Elections Delhi media had declared that Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor & Jignesh Mevani will essentially be the future of non BJP politics in Gujarat. Many of us knew that would never happen, and we said so then. This is what ended up happening: (1/n)

Alpesh left the congress and joined BJP, Hardik Patel led congress to a disastrous showing in the #GujaratByPolls where they won 0 seats out of the 8 they held. Jignesh Mevani became an Ind. MLA thanks to Congress not fielding a candidate, but INC won’t do that this time (2/n)

Hardik Patel and his agitation was doomed to fail as I said here a while back: https://www.myind.net/Home/viewArticle/gujarat-beyond-hardik-patel .. but the fact that he led the Congress to such an embarrassing result, shows you that the minor gains made have also vanished. The BJP got a whopping 54% of the vote (3/n)

Jignesh Mevani & his leftist politics may find a lot of backers in studios of Delhi & on Twitter, but except for a few minor parts of Gujarat it won’t succeed. He won’t be able to win without the Congress’s outside support. And that support is costing the congress elsewhere (4/n)

Congress has to decide, if they want leaders popular in Delhi studios to lead the party, failed dynasts or local leaders that have worked on ground. It is not the 8-0 result but the 21% margin that should shock them. 3 yrs after 2017, where they got 81, this is embarrassing (5/n)

This is probably the weakest version of Congress that I have seen in more than a decade. And if they continue to do this and promote Hardik and Jignesh as the new faces, they will see a worse result in the 2022 Vidhan Sabha Elections. (6/6) [End] #GujaratByPolls