With the Congress smarting from defeats successful Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls, enactment main Mallikarjun Kharge connected Friday asserted that “tough decisions” volition person to beryllium taken, accountability beryllium fixed and shortcomings removed by learning lessons from the predetermination results.
In his code during the Congress Working Committee gathering astatine the AICC office here, Kharge said helium believes that the EVMs person made the electoral process “suspect” and stressed that it is the law work of the Election Commission to guarantee escaped and just elections successful the country.
Kharge besides deed retired astatine interior bickering successful the party, and asserting that the deficiency of unity and statements against ain enactment leaders harms the enactment a lot.
“Unless we combat elections unitedly and halt making statements against each other, however volition we beryllium capable to decision our opponents politically?” the Congress president said. “Therefore, it is important that we strictly travel discipline. We person to stay agreed nether each circumstances. The enactment besides has the limb of disciplining. But we bash not privation to enactment our comrades successful immoderate bondage.
“Therefore, everyone needs to deliberation that a triumph of the Congress enactment is our triumph and a decision is our defeat. Our spot lies successful the spot of the party,” the Congress president said.
Noting that the Congress made a comeback with caller enthusiasm riding connected its show successful the Lok Sabha polls, Kharge said the predetermination results of 3 states were not arsenic per the party’s expectations.
“INDIA parties formed the authorities successful 2 retired of 4 states. But our show was beneath expectation. This is simply a situation for america successful presumption of the future,” helium said. “We request to instantly larn from the predetermination results and close each our weaknesses and shortcomings astatine the organisational level. These results are a connection for us,” helium said.
He noted that the ambiance was successful the Congress’ favour during the elections but pointed retired that conscionable the ambiance being successful its favour does not warrant victory. “We volition person to larn to person the ambiance into results. What is the crushed that we are not capable to instrumentality vantage of the atmosphere?” helium said.
Kharge called connected enactment leaders to enactment hard and marque strategies successful a timely manner. “We volition person to fortify our organisation up to the booth level. We volition person to beryllium vigilant, alert and cautious time and night, from making the elector database to counting the votes,” helium said.
“Our mentation from the opening till the counting of votes should beryllium specified that our workers and systems enactment diligently. In galore states, our organisation is not up to expectations. Our biggest request is to fortify the organisation,” helium said.
Kharge said that the Congress whitethorn person mislaid elections, but determination is nary uncertainty that unemployment, inflation, and economical inequality are burning issues successful this country.
He asserted that the caste census is besides an important contented today.
“After the benignant of results that came successful favour of MVA successful the Lok Sabha conscionable 6 months ago, the effect of the assembly polls is beyond the knowing of adjacent governmental pundits. The benignant of results that person come, nary arithmetic is capable to warrant it,” helium said.
Kharge called connected the leaders to amended the ways of contesting elections successful each situation.
Noting that times person changed, Kharge said the ways of contesting elections person changed and the enactment volition person to marque its micro-communication strategy amended than its opponents.
“Ways to combat propaganda and misinformation volition besides person to beryllium found. We volition person to determination guardant by learning lessons from the erstwhile results. The shortcomings person to beryllium removed. Tough decisions volition person to beryllium taken with confidence,” helium said.
Kharge besides asserted that the enactment cannot execute occurrence by pursuing aged methods. “You person to spot what your governmental hostile is doing connected a regular basis. We person to instrumentality decisions connected time. Accountability has to beryllium fixed, ” helium said. Kharge said that owed to the Congress’ repeated defeats, “fascist forces” are making their roots deeper.
“One by 1 they are besides taking implicit the institutions of the state,” helium added.
“We are celebrating the 75th twelvemonth of adoption of the Constitution. In these 75 years, the Congress enactment has done a large occupation with historical achievements successful India. It is due to the fact that of the Constitution that our state is successful the beforehand enactment of the world. If immoderate 1 enactment gets the astir recognition for making and implementing the Constitution, past it is the Congress,” helium said.
Kharge said it is the Congress that empowered the communal radical of the state and gave them rights.
In the past 11 years, a ample people of have-nots has emerged, who are troubled by unemployment, ostentation and deepening inequality, helium said.
“We person to go their beardown voice. It is important for the Congress to travel to powerfulness due to the fact that if we person a government, we tin instrumentality the docket of 140 crore radical of the country. We tin instrumentality the docket of the advancement of India,” Kharge said.
The gathering was chaired by Kharge and attended by erstwhile enactment main Rahul Gandhi and AICC wide secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K C Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh, among others.
While the Maha Vikas Aghadi, of which the Congress is simply a part, was decimated successful the polls successful Maharashtra, the party’s confederation led by the JMM scored a triumph successful Jharkhand.
In Haryana, the Congress had suffered a daze decision astatine the hands of the BJP.