Congress's Self-Inflicted Damage Spreads From Punjab to Karnataka

This story is about an important political party in India called the Congress.

The party wants to win elections, but it is having trouble working together as a team.

Recently, someone named Prashant Kishor won an election seat called Bankipur that another party, the BJP, had held for thirty years.

On the same day, the Congress kept a seat called Datia, and the BJP kept a seat called Manjalpur.

This shows that the BJP can lose sometimes, but it is not falling apart.

The Congress party is fighting with itself in a state called Punjab, where different leaders cannot agree on who is in charge.

In another state, Uttar Pradesh, the party cannot decide whether to keep working with another party called the Samajwadi Party.

In Karnataka, a new leader became Chief Minister, but many people think that other leaders in Delhi are really making his decisions.

The article says the Congress must fix its problems in every state if it wants to do well in the big national election in 2029.