Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 27: While the fact-finding team of the Congress party has started its work to identify reasons for the party’s historic defeat, official social media groups of the party are flooded with statements against leaders who were involved in dialogue on the National Conference on pre-poll alliance.
Reports said that in a social media group titled “Official JKPCC and DCC”, many young leaders blamed seniors for the disgraceful defeat of the party in the Assembly elections.
“Those involved in the discussion on seat-sharing were only worried about their own seats instead of protecting the interests of the party”, a leader posted in the group.
He observed that the seat-sharing with the National Conference has benefitted only four to five leaders while it proved suicidal for the overall party.
Another leader posted that Congress leaders, who were deputed by the central leadership to monitor elections, failed to come out of their comforts. Annoyed over the attitude of the senior leaders, some young activities on the party’s soc Many young leaders blamed seniors for the disgraceful defeat of the party in the Assembly elections.
Those involved in the discussion on seat-sharing were only worried about their own seats.
Seat-sharing with the National Conference benefitted only four to five leaders while it proved suicidal for the party.
Congress leaders, who were deputed by the central leadership to monitor elections, failed to come out of their comfort zones.
Meanwhile, according to an official handout issued by the party, the Congress’s fact-finding team headed by Ravinder Sharma today visited district Reasi and Udhampur today and interacted with party candidates, leaders, district and block functionaries besides leaders of frontal wings.
Accompanied by the team members including Ved Mahajan, Jahangir Mir, Naresh Gupta, and Dina Nath Bhagat, the committee held detailed deliberations with the contesting candidates of the party, senior leaders, and other functionaries and grass root leaders of the party to know about the defeat of the party, despite large scale resentment against BJP' over record unemployment, unprecedented price rise, heavy taxes and other anti-people decisions of the Centre and LG administration. | 