Team News Riveting
New Delhi, May 7
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday said that the party’s performance in the recently-concluded assembly polls was “very disappointing” and exhorted that the party “must learn appropriate lesson” from the setback in the spirit of humility and honesty.
Addressing the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting here, Sonia Gandhi said Congress Working Committee (CWC) would meet soon to the analysis of the results. She however termed the party’s performance as “unexpected”.
Gandhi congratulated Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and DMK chief MK Stalin for their “handsome victories”.
“Most unfortunately, our own performance in all the states (that went to the polls) was very disappointing and if I may say, unexpectedly so,” the Congress President said, adding that the CWC would be meeting shortly to review the results but it went without saying that they as a party collective must draw the appropriate lessons from the setback in a spirit of humility and honesty.
Congress suffered defeats in Assam and West Bengal and could not open its account in West Bengal where it had won over 40 seats in 2016 polls. The Congress could win only two seats in Puducherry where it was in power. Only in Tamil Nadu, the party gave a credible performance as part of DMK-led alliance that swept to power defeating the AIADMK-led alliance.
The Congress-led Mahajot was the main challenger to the ruling BJP-led NDA in Assam and Congress-led UDF to the ruling Left Democratic Front in Kerala. While NDA returned to power in Assam, the LDF returned to power in Kerala.
