INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New Delhi: The decimation of the Congress in Bihar and bypolls in 11 states has raised questions on the recently-appointed AICC team of
state in-charges and general secretaries
Out of the 56 Assembly seats that had bypolls, the Congress could manage to win only 12 seats, a strike rate of 20 per cent.Under Rajeev
Satav, the Gujarat in-charge, Congress lost all the eight Assembly seats
Interestingly, Mr Satav was also given a Rajya Sabha nomination earlier this year
With Randeep Surjewala in-charge of Karnataka, the party lost both the Assembly seats in the state
Apart from his assigned state, Mr Surjewala was also deeply involved in Bihar where the Congress just about managed to win 19 out of the 70
Similar was the case in Telangana and Odisha where the party lost one and two seats respectively
The in-charge of these states are Manickam Tagore and A Chella Kumar respectively
All these appointments were made recently, in September this year.In Haryana, the Congress won the lone seat but that was under the steam of
former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda
The state in-charge, Vivek Bansal, was nowhere in the picture.In Jharkhand and Chattisgarh, the Congress won one seat each primarily because
the Congress is in power in the state and the state chief ministers put their weight behind the party candidates
Bhakta Charan Das and Kuljeet Nagra, recently appointed to oversee the states of Manipur and Nagaland, could not help the party to even open
of migrant labourer crisis and the Hathras rape case, the party drew a blank across seven seats
little over 3,00 votes and a vote-share of just 2.17 per cent.Insiders claim that since these appointments took place after the Congress
Working Committee (CWC) meeting in which the letter written by the 23 party leaders was discussed, the appointments have the imprint of
They further add that resentment is brewing against these leaders because the party has not been able to make any impact in these states.Mr
Satav and Mr Chella Kumar, in-charge of Gujarat and Odisha, have often attacked senior and junior leaders of the party who have commented on
the functioning of the office of Mr Gandhi or the party
Their position becomes questionable now as the results show that the party in their states has been decimated at the hustings.Several
it happened in Bihar.The kitchen politics within the party has ensured its defeat in the recent polls
can happen as early as next week.
