Out of power since 1990, it won 27 assembly seats in 2015, in a grand alliance with the RJD and JD(U). Its tally in the nine Lok Sabha polls since 1989—4,1,2,5,4,3,2,2, 1—read like an out-of-form batsman’s score on a bouncy track
Prominent leaders: Madan Mohan Jha, Akhilesh P. Singh, Sadanand Singh, Mohd Jawed, S.K. Singh, Shyam Sunder, Ashok Kumar
Its government with JD(S) is on the verge of a collapse with several Congress MLAs jumping ship. Former CM Siddaramaiah and AICC in-charge K.C. Venugopal do not see eye to eye. Dinesh Gundu Rao remains president though the PCC has been dissolved
Prominent leaders: Siddaramaiah, D.K. Shivakumar, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Mallikarjun Kharge, Jairam Ramesh
The only state where the party has done well in the assembly and Lok Sabha polls since…
