Not by governance alone

The congress had gone into shell shock far earlier. The party and its government were just unable to gel ,be it policy , governance or coordination within  This is when UPA -I had done reasonably well on economy and welfare and the BJP  had been endlessly tying itself in knots from 2004. UPA.should have had the good sense to resign and go for fresh elections in 2012-2013 which would have saved  them the ignominy of crashing from 206 to 44. In trying to save balance 18 months of UPA-II , Congress has lost a decade. This fatal error provided for the the advent in July 2013 of Modi as the messiah for BJP and Kalki for the Congress' downfall. 

  If at 31 % vote share the BJP garnered 282 there is much leeway for the Congress  to reinvent itself  this time ,with a mix of dynasty and guided grooming of its satraps.The BJP too will find it a tall order to run a diverse nation on the strength of improved governance alone. It aims  cutting subsidies across the board in the hope  of balancing the socio-economics by a resurgent babu led governance. It might well do so but that will take time and changing factors of global economics would provide  room for errors.BJP travelled ten long years to reassert itself politically, helped along in the end stages by a bumbling UPA-II. The Congress too would resurrect itself  mostly by its own efforts and no less by the failures of NDA-II in the coming years.