Congress obtained humiliated in Assembly polls. Now Sonia Gandhi is attempting to stop a celebration cut up

The humbling obtained by Congress within the just-concluded meeting elections throughout the nation has opened contemporary fissures throughout the get together. Anticipating a doable rift within the get together, the interim President Sonia Gandhi has now come out to use the band-aid and preserve the get together collectively. Addressing a digital assembly of the Congress parliamentary get together, Sonia introduced that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) would meet quickly to evaluation the ballot outcomes.“Most unfortunately, our own performance in all the states was very disappointing and if I may say, unexpectedly so. The CWC is meeting shortly to review the results but it goes without saying that we as a party collective must draw appropriate lessons from this setback in a spirit of humility and honesty,” Gandhi was quoted as saying by information company PTI.Sonia’s statements come sizzling on the heels of senior Congress leaders issuing statements concerning the drubbing and urging the get together to make modifications from inside, subtly asking for a change in management on the high.Kapil Sibal in an announcement to the media requested Congress to pay heed to the voices being raised from the get together. “Congress has not performed well in the recently held Assembly polls. It failed in Assam and Kerala. The party could not secure a single seat in West Bengal,” mentioned Kapil Sibal whereas chatting with ANI. “Now when voices are being raised from the party, this debacle should be looked into,” the chief added.Senior chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who took Sonia’s facet in the course of the G-23 letter debacle final yr, seemingly had a change in tone after the crushing loss in Bengal the place he led the get together. Lamenting about how he and his get together males had been left alone by the excessive command to fend for themselves, Ranjan didn’t maintain again.“The TMC raised this that I had been left high and dry and I do not have the support of the AICC. After two rallies, Rahul Gandhi Ji stopped coming to West Bengal because of the Covid situation. It also demoralised our workers and gave a handle to the ruling regime to humiliate us…” mentioned Ranjan in an interview to the Indian Express while additional including, “We had to fend for ourselves. We have been decimated by Mamata Banerjee regionally, we have been decimated by Modi Ji nationally. The BJP is the threat for us nationally and Mamata Banerjee is the threat for us regionally. So where should we go?”#ExpressFrontPage | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury admits want for a change within the get together functioning.https://t.co/eprmrfoBkU— The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) May 4, 2021Sounding dejected that the get together didn’t have any goal or stakes within the struggle in Bengal, Ranjan added, “The TMC wanted to retain power and the BJP wanted to wrest power. We did not have such stakes, our fight was for survival.Ranjan admitted that he could not see the light at the end of the tunnel after the defeat and remarked unless Congress changed its strategy, the result won’t change.“I cannot expect any bright prospects in this present situation. However, things certainly will change because the credibility of the Narendra Modi government has been reducing day after day. So if the Congress is able to put forth its point more vigorously and not confine itself to Twitter or WhatsApp but hit the streets in support of common people”As reported beforehand by TFI, the largest repercussion of the defeat for Congress will be one other civil warfare throughout the get together because the members develop more and more weary of the timid management on the high. The pathetic exhibiting of the Congress has solid aspersions over the aptitude of scion Rahul Gandhi, who was harbouring desires of getting the Party President place again.Read More: With Congress shedding its face within the five-state elections, the get together is ready to separate, and one faction will probably be led by G-23 leadersLast yr, the G-23 group, together with leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and several other different Congress biggies had shot out an indignant letter to Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, complaining about not having free and truthful elections throughout the get together. The letter, nevertheless, obtained leaked earlier than the annual congress meet and an indignant Rahul Gandhi went out on a prowl for the blood of those that penned the letter. The get together prince even dubbed all of the dissenters as ‘agents of BJP’.Congress is in turmoil and by calling the CWC meet, Sonia is simply attempting to save lots of her and her son’s place. The Congress had lengthy misplaced the plot and it was evident from Rahul Gandhi’s tweet after the ballot outcomes. While the get together drew a clean within the state, the Congress chief as an alternative of consoling his cadre appeared extra elated on the information that BJP had not gained. If the mindset of get together excessive command is identical as that of Rahul Gandhi, then Congress can’t resurrect its fortunes, not till it has a change in guard.