CWC meet on poll loss tomorrow

The humiliating defeat of the Congress MPs in all the seven seats in Delhi is likely to be discussed threadbare at the CWC meeting slated for Monday. Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed told this newspaper that the CWC would go into details of how they lost the Delhi seats.

“The meeting will be introspect of our performance in this election as we have lost and something must have gone wrong,” said Mr Ahmed. The Congress suffered a crushing defeat in all the seven Lok Sabha seats primarily because of antiincumbency at the Centre coupled with the shifting of its vote bank towards AAP.

Also, there is a feeling among a large section of people and the party workers that senior Congress leaders were not easily accessible, which affected the campaigning and morale at the ground level.

“This is not true that senior leaders were not accessible but in the meeting everything will be discussed to analyse the reasons because of which we couldn’t perform well. The functioning of the Delhi Congress for future will also be discussed in the meeting,” added Mr Ahmed.

The Congress leader also said that if the Assembly elections take place in the city, then they would fight it with full energy. “As far as the Delhi elections are concern, we will be acting after the lieutenant general or the BJP will clear their stand on it as the matter is also pending in the Supreme Court,” said Mr Ahmed.

The downslide of the Congress began in the last Assembly elections when the party could log its victory in only eight of the 70member Assembly seats. The party, which had won all the seven seats in the previous Lok Sabha elections, were pushed to the third position in these Lok Sabha elections.