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Published 19:40 IST, December 29th 2019

"Rahul Gandhi is next PM": Youth Congress describes 2019 in 5 words, gets trolled

The Youth Congress on Sunday joined the #2019in5words' trend on Social Media as it came up with the five words to predict something which has not happened yet.

Reported by: Jay Pandya
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The year 2019 is almost coming to an end and people are looking back on things that happened in the past year. Social media users have hundreds of things to look back upon from popular GIFs, videos, tweets and much more. And the latest one is a Twitter trend where people are summing up this year in just five words. On Sunday, the Youth Congress joined the '#2019in5words' trend as it came up with the five words to predict something which has not happened yet. Exuding confidence on the party's former president, the account tweeted:

"Rahul Gandhi is next PM"

This has not gone down well some of the users and they have started making jokes on the Congress. One user commented, "Haha, Accha Joke hai" which translates to "Haha, its a nice joke" while another one asked, "You guys sure about that?" Have a look at some of the reactions:

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Congress' poor performance in 2019 Lok Sabha polls

It was a year of crisis for the Congress with Rahul Gandhi failing in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls even despite his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra formally joining the party to boost the Congress. While the Congress’ vote share in the 2014 parliamentary elections was 19.52%, which earned it 44 seats, the party polled only 19.70% votes in 2019, winning just 52 seats. 

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The Congress, which was founded in 1885, on Saturday posted a tweet highlighting “135 years of unity, justice, equality, ahimsa and freedom”.

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19:40 IST, December 29th 2019