Congress refuses to blame anyone
Speculation is rife over whether Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son, party vice- president Rahul Gandhi, would resign on moral grounds. But sources in the party trashed such speculation.
The Congress is refusing to fix responsibility on anybody for its worst- ever performance in the Lok Sabha elections before the CWC meeting to be held here on Monday. But the officials in the AICC, PCCs and the party chief ministers too have not offered to quit on moral grounds yet. The only exception is Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and a couple of ministers in Maharashtra.
Speculation is rife over whether Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son, party vice- president Rahul Gandhi, would resign on moral grounds. But sources in the party trashed such speculation. “It is all rubbish. This is not the way to go forward. That is not the solution,” they said.
Mrs Gandhi and Mr Gandhi have already accepted the responsibility for the defeat. If they place their resignation letters in the CWC meeting, it will be rejected outright for the simple reason that nobody is challenging their authority or questioning their decisions even after the historic downfall.
In such a situation, the central leadership cannot held the party chief ministers in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Assam, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and the PCC chiefs in UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Haryana responsible for the debacle.
This is because any action against them, individually or collectively, could be questioned within the party as aggrieved leaders would ask why the leadership is applying double standards.
The only option before Mrs Gandhi is to drop them during the organisational reshuffle whenever it takes place. The CWC meeting would discuss the factors that led to the party’s humiliating defeat in polls.