GRAND OLD PARTY IN A FROZEN STATE

◗ With almost all frontal organisations of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) being in a frozen state and committees dissolved, Odisha state unit of the Congress has almost been dysfunctional post the 2019 polls

◗ Neither the PCC president nor the AICC leader in charge of Odisha is seen at the Congress Bhawan here ◗ Although the PCC chief Niranjan Patnaik owned up the responsibility for the party defeat and tendered his resignation, the AICC rejected it and asked him to continue in his position

◗ On the other hand, AICC Odisha incharge Jitendra Singh has not uttered a single word on the party’s ‘poorest show’

◗ Its vote share dropped to 13.4 per cent from 25.6 per cent in 2019. Similarly in the Lok Sabha polls, it got only one seat and its vote share dropped drastically