evidence: Karnataka - BJP: 24 - Congress: 4 [...] 2022 August: 32 %, 2024 February: 17% [...] The states which have already had Assembly elections this year are, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Mizoram while others such as Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, and Meghalaya. Congress needed to win a maximum of these states to keep its hopes high for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. However, while the Congress lost Rajasthan, which is infamous for voting out incumbents every 5 years, it lost Chhattisgarh as well. Even though there is a difference in the reason for the two losses, where Gehlot performed extremely well as an administrator and pursuing social welfare while Baghel performed miserably on the governance front, and neither could he control the fundamentalist intentions of the Hindutva forces.