Congress panel meets to discuss Bihar election result
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A bunch of senior leaders, a part of the Congress Special Committee to help social gathering president Sonia Gandhi on organisational and operational issues, had a digital assembly on Tuesday during which they reportedly mentioned the efficiency within the current Assembly polls in Bihar and the byelections in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Manipur.
The Congress president, nonetheless, was not a part of the assembly as was reported earlier. There was no official phrase on what transpired within the inner assembly.
The panel can also be supposed to have mentioned the long run technique on the farm Acts together with submitting two crore signatures to the President.
The committee has six members — A.K. Antony, Ahmed Patel, Ambika Soni, K.C. Venugopal, Mukul Wasnik and Randeep Surjewala — however solely 4 members joined the assembly. While Mr. Patel is hospitalised, Mr. Antony is believed to have missed the assembly due to private causes.
Party’s Bihar in-charge Shaktisinh Gohil and Gujarat in-charge Rajeev Satav are reported to have joined in.
The assembly comes at a time when there are rumblings inside the Congress over the non-performance in Bihar the place it gained solely 19 of the 70 seats contested.
On Monday, former Law Minister and senior social gathering chief Kapil Sibal had mentioned the Bihar outcomes had confirmed that voters didn’t see the Congress as a viable various to the ruling social gathering and complained that the management had not taken the current drubbing critically.
Mr. Sibal was strongly rebutted by his social gathering colleagues like Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Lok Sabha chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for discussing the social gathering’s inner issues within the media.
On Tuesday, former Law Minister Salman Khurshid wrote a Facebook submit in defence of the social gathering’s management.
“When we do well, admittedly somewhat infrequently they take it for granted. But when we underperform, not even do badly, they are quick to bite their nails. By the looks of it there would be little of the nails left for future disappointments. Is it really a case of bad workmen quarrelling with their tools?” Mr. Khurshid mentioned with out naming Mr. Sibal.
“Our real redemption might be found in understanding the mind of the contemporary citizen, moulded by prevailing circumstances and influenced by a self-serving potion of social envy and suspicion, if not hate, fed by the ruling establishment. If the mood of the electorate is resistant to the liberal values we have espoused and cherished, we should be prepared for a long struggle rather than look for short cuts to get back into power,” he mentioned.
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