BEYOND THE GANDHIS
52 % of the MOTN respondents believe that the Congress will do better without the Gandhi family
On January 3, 2014, facing flak from the media and the Opposition on many issues, including corruption, then prime minister Manmohan Singh said: “I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me...given the political compulsions, I have done the best I could do.” In May that year, he was ousted from power, and his party, the Congress, sank to a humiliating low, winning just 44 seats in a Lok Sabha which has 543 members.
Almost a decade later, the general public,
