Congress Parliamentary Party to meet on May 7 amid questions of lack of poll post-mortem

The Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP), headed by Sonia Gandhi, can be assembly just about on Friday however a bit of the celebration is asking why the management has not but carried out a post-mortem of the Assembly election outcomes.

It is the primary time the CPP will meet just about after the Budget session of Parliament ended on March 25 and can be attended by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former celebration chief Rahul Gandhi.

While some distinguished members of the Group of 23 dissenters (G-23) like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal had publicly mentioned the talk on poll efficiency can wait within the face of a public well being emergency, others preserve that the pandemic shouldn’t be used to “cover up the leadership’s failure to address organisational issues”.

“It is almost delusional to think that it is business as usual. At least, responsibility should be fixed as to why we lost Kerala and Assam,” an MP mentioned on Thursday.

Several celebration leaders have questioned the Bengal unit’s determination to ‘boycott’ the swearing in of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday that put the Congress on the identical web page because the BJP.

“Top Opposition leaders are in touch with each other as the Bengal victory is symbolic of the fight against the BJP and Narendra Modi and Mamata has proved her mettle,” one other senior Congress chief informed this reporter.

From Mr. Azad calling Ms. Banerjee the “Lioness of the East” to Mr. Sibal referring to her as the trendy day Jhansi of Rani to Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath hailing her because the chief of the nation, celebration veterans have clearly thrown their weight behind the Trinamool chief.

Mr. Nath mentioned Ms. Banerjee not solely fought towards Mr. Modi but additionally Central companies the CBI, ED and the Income Tax Department.

In the run up to the Bengal elections, senior member of G-23, Anand Sharma, had additionally publicly questioned the transfer to be an element of the alliance that had Indian Secular Front, based by the cleric of Furfura Sharif Abbas Siddiqui.

There are rumblings inside over Kerala and Assam. While a bit of celebration leaders from Assam additionally questioned the alliance with Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), a number of native leaders in Kerala complained of being ignored by a frontrunner who’s shut to Mr. Gandhi.

At the celebration’s common press convention, spokespserson Supriya Shrinate didn’t have a solution on when the Congress would get down to doing a post-mortem.

Ms. Shrinate, nonetheless, lashed out on the insensitivity of the Ministers and demanded the sacking of External Affairs Minister Jaishankar for blaming earlier governments for the collapse of the heath infrastructure.

“The Congress urges Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack both Jaishankar and Harsh Vardhan as they are making fun of people’s miseries. These two Ministers are bringing disrepute to the country. While the Health Minister is totally missing in action, Jaishankar is acting like a petty troll,” she mentioned.