Tarun Gogoi raises voice for countrywide restructuring of Congress

Guwahati, May 27, 2019:

Will Congress go for a complete overhaul after the drubbing in LS polls?

This is the question that is doing the rounds in the party circle.

And the whisper is louder now.

On Monday, former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi raised the voice for restructuring the party countrywide.

The octogenarian leader and three times Congress CM was candid to say that the party had less acceptability to voters than Modi.

Gogoi also expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of senior leaders.

According to him, it was the lack of strategy that had led to the dismal show of the party in the elections.

The Congress has managed to increase its tally by 8 seats from 44 in 2014 to 52 in this election.

It has failed to open its account in as many as 19 states and Union Territories.

As many seven Congress leaders have so far offered to resign after the party’s poor show in the biggest event of the largest democracy in the world.

On May 26, Congress chief of Assam unit Ripun Bora offered to step down after his party could bag only three out of 14 LS seats in Assam.

In fact, emotions ran high in the Congress Working Committee meet on last Saturday.

Party president Rahul Gandhi offered to resign after the poll debacle.

Both Rahul and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi expressed dissatisfaction at the performances of some of the senior leaders. Priyanka Gandhi was more vocal against some of the senior Congress leaders.

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