Sonia discusses causes for ballot debacle in Punjab with Congress MPs from state

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday held a gathering with occasion MPs from Punjab and sought their views on the occasion’s debacle within the just-concluded meeting polls.

Sources mentioned the MPs confused that infighting and indiscipline led to the occasion’s poor efficiency on the hustings and this should come to an finish.

Gandhi heard the views expressed by the parliamentarians and was learnt to have admitted that some errors have been made within the state, the place the occasion misplaced energy to the Aam Aadmi Party.

Among the MPs who attended the assembly within the Parliament Complex have been Preneet Kaur, Manish Tewari, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Shamsher Singh Dullo, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Santokh Singh Chaudhary and Amar Singh.

Mohammed Sadique and Ambika Soni have been, nonetheless, not current within the assembly which lasted about an hour.

Incidently, Manish Tewari and Preneet Kaur attended a gathering of leaders of the G-23, which has been essential of the occasion management, later within the night at Ghulam Nabi Azad’s residence.

The MPs, the sources mentioned, are learnt to have informed Gandhi that the occasion should stay united and efforts needs to be made to carry everybody collectively to strengthen it additional.

They mentioned some MPs blamed the Punjab management, together with Navjot Singh Sidhu, Harish Rawat, Harish Chaudhary and Sunil Jakhar, for the ballot debacle.

The Congress might win solely 18 seats within the 117-member meeting within the simply concluded polls.

Some MPs additionally mentioned that some leaders proved to be liabilities and infighting between high leaders value the occasion dearly.

An MP reportedly informed the Congress chief that projecting Charanjit Singh Channi because the Dalit chief ministerial face additionally didn’t assist and proved counter-productive as different sections bought alienated from the occasion.