How can the old Congress beat the new Congress?

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's landslide victory in the recent general elections there has been enormous attention and praise of Modi's tireless campaigning and his ability to connect with the people. But what about his vanquished opponent Congress President Rahul Gandhi? Gandhi's problem is his "evident discomfort in the company of seasoned Congress leaders", so he "replaced the seasoned leaders with 'lightweight outsiders'", and hence "he ended up reforming the Alsatian into a Poodle", wrote CL Manoj. Actually, the real problem of Gandhi is that Modi has borrowed all of Congress's ideas and policies, so that Gandhi cannot criticise his policies without blaming previous Congress premiers, including his own ancestors, whereas Modi is free to criticise Gandhi and his family. Modi veered to the left to win a second term, whereas Bill Clinton and Tony Blair moved to the right to win consecutive elections. Bill Clinton, the first two-term Democratic president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "signed more consequential conservative legislative than any president since -- and perhaps anyone before him". Blair, who won three elections, the first two by landslide, was loved by the Conservative Party leadership because they believed 'he was one of us', albeit trapped by the Labour Party". On the other hand, "He is reviled by many in the party, and his supporters are in decline as a new generation of Labour MPs has entered parliament, rejecting Mr Blair and the way he tried to rid their party of its left-wing elements." Modi projected himself as a strongman, the only person capable of protecting India. Only he had the guts to launch a surgical strike on Pakistan after a terrorist attack at Uri and to order an air strike on a terrorist camp in Balakot, inside Pakistan. Gandhi did not mention the war in 1965, when Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri ordered the invasion of Pakistan and Indian forces almost conquered Lahore. In 1971, 90,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to India when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister. East Pakistan became independent Bangladesh. Surely, these were much larger victories, so why was Gandhi silent? Because India returned all Pakistani territory in 1965 and 90,000 Pakistani soldiers were returned to Pakistan in 1971, for nothing in return. Our soldiers died in vain and Lal Bahadur Shastri was killed in Tashkent. Modi is said to have a Hindutva agenda and apparently wants to turn secular India into a Hindu rashtra. To counter that and to garner Hindu votes Rahul Gandhi has been visiting temples to show that he is a Hindu. Modi has done nothing to stop the plunder of Hindu temples by releasing them from control of politicians, while churches and mosques are free. Gandhi cannot say anything because this was started by the Congress. Modi is the new Congress and Gandhi is helpless.