Cong meets Delhi leaders, starts analysis of LS election debacle
23 Jun 2014 4:09 AM IST
An informal group of Congress leaders on Saturday met party leaders from Delhi to identify the reasons behind its whitewash by BJP in the seven parliamentary seats in Delhi.
Veterans of Delhi Congress and former MPs Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar were also called for the meeting, which was led by senior leader AK Antony and attended by five former MPs — Kapil Sibal, Ajay Maken, Krishna Tirath, Mahabal Mishra and Ramesh Kumar, all of whom lost from seats in Delhi.
Two of the seven former MPs — Sandip Dikshit and former PCC chief JP Agrawal — didn’t attend the meeting, which saw participants analysing the reasons for the poor result while exploring the way forward to retrieve the situation.
While Dikshit, son of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, was not in town, Agrawal’s absence raised eyebrows within the party. Agrawal could not be reached for his comments in this regard.
It is learnt that apart from general factors like price rise, corruption and lack of communication, the Delhi leaders also pointed at internal rivalry within the state unit and the style of functioning of chief minister Sheila Dikshit as being some of the reasons for their disappointing showing.
Veterans of Delhi Congress and former MPs Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar were also called for the meeting, which was led by senior leader AK Antony and attended by five former MPs — Kapil Sibal, Ajay Maken, Krishna Tirath, Mahabal Mishra and Ramesh Kumar, all of whom lost from seats in Delhi.
Two of the seven former MPs — Sandip Dikshit and former PCC chief JP Agrawal — didn’t attend the meeting, which saw participants analysing the reasons for the poor result while exploring the way forward to retrieve the situation.
While Dikshit, son of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, was not in town, Agrawal’s absence raised eyebrows within the party. Agrawal could not be reached for his comments in this regard.
It is learnt that apart from general factors like price rise, corruption and lack of communication, the Delhi leaders also pointed at internal rivalry within the state unit and the style of functioning of chief minister Sheila Dikshit as being some of the reasons for their disappointing showing.
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