As the Congress Working Committee gathered just about on Monday to brainstorm over the social gathering’s ballot efficiency, Sonia Gandhi introduced that the method of electing the brand new social gathering president will likely be held on June 23.
Over the previous 12 months, senior leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor and Kapil Sibal have referred to as for “full-time” and “effective leadership” that will likely be “visible” and “active” within the discipline.
Speaking over the social gathering’s efficiency within the not too long ago held Assembly polls, Gandhi mentioned that they need to “take note of the setbacks and put the house in order”.
“A small group will be set up to look at every aspect that caused the party’s electoral reverses. We need to candidly understand as to why the Congress failed to dislodge incumbent govts in Kerala and Assam, and drew a complete blank in West Bengal,” Gandhi added.
“These will yield uncomfortable lessons, but if we do not face up to the reality, if we do not look the facts in the face, we will not draw the right lessons,” she famous.
Gandhi’s statements come days after she described their efficiency in final month’s Assembly elections as “very disappointing”. The Congress struggled to attraction to voters on this spherical of Assembly elections.
In the recently-concluded Assembly polls, the social gathering did not wrest again energy in Kerala and Assam and drew a clean in West Bengal. It additionally misplaced out in Puducherry. The deliberations would assist the Congress put together for the subsequent spherical of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
In Bengal, the place the social gathering joined fingers with the Left and the ISF, it was shut out and the alliance was routed. The Trinamool swept to victory with 213 seats whereas the the BJP received 77.
In Assam, the social gathering did marginally higher, successful 29 of 95 seats it contested. But the opposition alliance did not problem the BJP, successful simply 50 seats as towards the ruling social gathering’s 75.
In Kerala, the Congress held its floor, shedding only one seat when in comparison with 2016 when it had received 41. The Left entrance, nevertheless, registered a commanding win by claiming 99 seats.
In Tamil Nadu, the social gathering was a part of the successful DMK-led alliance and carried out comparatively higher, successful 18 of 25 allotted seats. It, nevertheless, did not return to energy in Puducherry because the NR Congress-BJP pairing received 16 of 30 seats.