India, Feb. 9 -- In three successive Delhi legislative assembly elections, the Congress swept the city, winning a majority of the seats. In three successive Delhi legislative assembly elections, the Congress got decimated in the city, failing to win a single seat. No other single data point perhaps encapsulates the story of the decline of India's grand old party than this journey from dominance to having zero presence in the national capital. And the man who has been at the helm of the party through these three successive routs is Rahul Gandhi.

Given it is the Congress, there will be an immediate attempt to rescue and protect the family from any blame for Delhi. The party's spin doctors are citing the marginal increase in vote share as p...