Party That Led India's Independence in Crisis After Modi’s Big Win
- Rahul Gandhi’s Congress in shock following his resignation
- Congress gets second-lowest tally in history in India poll
Rahul Gandhi
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Narendra Modi not only surprised the world with a landslide victory last week, he also put the 134-year-old Indian National Congress on life support.
Some candidates from the storied party, home to many of India’s founding fathers when it won independence from Britain in 1947, simply gave up ahead of the May 23 election. One checked himself into a hospital to avoid campaigning after the party wouldn’t give him enough money to run polling booths in his electorate, according two members of his campaign who asked not to be identified as they’re weren’t authorized to speak to media.