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Figures showed Congress, which runs the federal government in New Delhi, acceptable acutely in alone one accompaniment and adverse a barrage defeat in acute Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's best crawling and politically cogent state.
The acclamation were a mid-term acceptance analysis for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scandal-tainted
government advanced of 2014 elections and a aboriginal absolute appraisement of Rahul Gandhi, the abutting in band in the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
"I stood in front, so it is my responsibility," Gandhi told reporters as he conceded defeat. "All of us in the Congress affair fought. We fought able-bodied but the aftereffect which came was not so good."
Gandhi, a 41-year-old accepted "prime-minister-in-waiting" led advancement in Uttar Pradesh in a bid to animate Congress -- his bigger claiming yet in a accompaniment area the affair has a afflictive almanac addition aback 22 years.
The aboriginal accepted after-effects and projections showed Congress acceptable aloof 27 out of 403 seats, apery alone a baby access on their abject account in 2007 admitting Gandhi's active assignment at accessible rallies.
The abortion will acceptable augment doubts about his adeptness to advance the world's bigger capitalism and ability bake absorption in his sister Priyanka, whom some Gandhi loyalists still prefer.
"Certainly I apprehend to accept victories forth the way and I apprehend to accept defeats," Rahul added, answer that revitalising Congress in UP was a abiding project. "This is one of the defeats so I booty it in my stride."
The tragedy-plagued Gandhi ancestors has bedeviled backroom in India back ability in 1947, accouterment three prime ministers, two of whom were assassinated. Rahul's Italian-born mother Sonia is accepted Congress president.
"One affair is clear, the Nehru-Gandhi allure is no best a aloft agency in acceptable elections," political analyst and analyst Parsa Venkateshwar Rao told.
"The action can booty achievement from the actuality that Rahul Gandhi has not absolutely emerged as a baton of civic stature."
Even in the celebrated Gandhi ancestors constituencies of Rae Bareli and Amethi, from area Sonia and Rahul are adopted for the civic parliament, non-Congress candidates looked assertive for victory.
Prime Minister Singh, a 79-year-old aloft bookish and economist, is additionally acceptable to face looking questions about his hands-off appearance of administration and his administration of the government back his re-election in 2009.
A alternation of high-profile bribery scandals and a accepted anti-corruption attack led by activist Anna Hazare aftermost summer accept abominably damaged Singh's angel and aching the affair in the accompaniment polls.
"It is actual difficult to define affidavit why we didn't do bigger than what we accept done," Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told the NDTV account channel.
Following a almanac aerial turn-out of 59.5 percent in UP, bounden Chief Minister Mayawati, a colourful low-caste baton acclaimed for her handbags and aftertaste for big-ticket statues, was additionally branch for a assault defeat.
Victory appeared about assertive for the bounded Samajwadi Affair (SP) which is headed by a aloft wrestler and draws on abutment from low-caste farmers and Muslims.
Akhilesh Yadav, the absorbing son of SP baton Mulayam Singh Yadav, promised a crackdown on bribery and said the abutment for his affair showed voters accept "risen aloft degree and religion."
Congress absent heavily in the anniversary accompaniment Goa, area it had been in power, and was disturbing to achieve the agronomical heartland of Punjab and the aerial arctic accompaniment of Uttarakhand.
Impoverished Manipur in the far northeast of India was the ablaze atom for Congress, area the affair looked assertive to abide in power.
The elections in the bristles states were captivated in stages over the aftermost bristles weeks, alpha on January 28 in Manipur and finishing at the weekend in UP and Goa.
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