Cong leaders are blaming internal tiff and Hooda govt for defeat
The Congress leaders claimed that the PCC failed to organise impactful rallies and gatherings to reach out to the maximum voters. (Photo: PTI)
New Delhi: With exit polls indicating that the Congress is set to lose Haryana, a blamegame has begun for not having an impactful campaigning in the state. Party leaders from Delhi and other states who had campaigned in Haryana have started blaming internal tiff between the Pradesh Congress Committee and chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s camp for incompetent campaigning.
The results will be out on Sunday, but Congress leaders in a way have accepted that their dream of coming into power for the third time is not going to be fulfilled. Team Sonia and Team Rahul seem to be ineffective following the internal tiff and the failure of the Hooda government.
The Congress leaders claimed that the PCC failed to organise impactful rallies and gatherings to reach out to the maximum voters. “The management of the PCC was bad, following which they didn’t even utilise the party leaders who were working hard for the party,” said a senior Congress leader. The leaders also claimed that the observers appointed in the state to help the party win elections were the ones who themselves had lost elections in the past with huge margins.
“People who have been losing elections themselves can’t come up with useful observations. The selection of observers and even candidates was not based on the merit,” said a senior party leader from the national capital on the request of anonymity.
Tiff between PCC president Ashok Tanwar, a confidant of the party high command, and chief minister Hooda is known. Few weeks ago, Mr Tanwar had threatened to resign over the list of candidates and had even sent his resignation letter to party president Sonia Gandhi.
Mr Tanwar apparently has been unhappy with the domination of Mr Hooda in the selection of candidates. He was not in approval of the party candidates for Dabwali and Rania in Sirsa district. The candidatures he opposed were that of K.V. Singh and Ranjit Singh. Mr Hooda’s camp had argued that the duo can give a tough fight to the Indian National Lok Dal.
The Congress is fighting a 10-year-old anti-incumbency in the State. The party got just one seat in the recent Lok Sabha elections. The exit polls have given clear majority for BJP in Haryana, giving it 52 of the 90 seats. INLD comes second with 23 seats, Congress 10 and others 5.
If the figures come true then the BJP will be forming the government in Haryana for the first time ever. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had campaigned extensively in the state, addressing 11 rallies.
In the outgoing Assembly, Congress had 40 seats, BJP had only four, INLD 31 and HJC 6 and others had 9.
( Source : dc )
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