If the year 2012 was bleak for the Congress, which continued to be besieged by an avalanche of scams and anti-graft agitations - 2013 looks equally grim. Just as the party had started to come out of its stupor by the second half of last year, Narendra Modi's victory in Gujarat and the country-wide anger triggered by the brutal Delhi gangrape , and the callous political response to it, have pushed it back into a muddle.