The Congress Party was almost wiped out in 2014 elections winning only 44 seats. The next few years saw Congress losing its ground in the state legislative assemblies to the BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. In 2018 elections, Congress party returned to power forming government in 3 states where BJP had been the ruling party.
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