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The outcome of the five assembly elections is yet another indication that the Congress is losing ground at an alarming pace. Few expected the party, despite the hectic campaign by Rahul Gandhi, to be in the reckoning for office in UP. But many believed that it had a realistic chance of winning Punjab and Uttarakhand. But the Congress failed to tap anti-incumbency in Punjab and Uttarakhand while falling to it in Goa.