Crumbling starts in Congress after crushing defeat in Lok Sabha elections
Patna, May 27 (UNI): Within a week of its crushing defeat in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, several senior leaders of Congress have become vocal about snapping ties with RJD and are questioning those who handled election campaign and selected electoral candidates.
Former president of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) Chandan Bagchi said here that RJD was not a natural ally of Congress and the party should have severed ties with it back in year 2000.
He said the Congress president had offered to quit taking moral responsibility of the defeat, and others leaders who were given important positions during the elections should follow his example and step down, he added.
"Congress has its own mass base and the party does not need to depend on others for winning elections in Bihar," Mr Bagchi claimed, adding that the situation could have been different, if Congress had contested elections on its own.
Time had come to strengthen the organisation and motivate the ground level workers to ensure better performance of the party in coming elections, he noted.
Another former president of BPCC Anil Sharma said Congress should snap ties with the RJD without any further loss of time. While Congress believed in politics of taking together all sections of the society, RJD indulged in caste base politics, he said adding that alliance with RJD was only damaging the interest of Congress.
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