Close on heels of his party’s poor performance in the Bihar Assembly elections, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal in an interview on Mon...
Close on heels of his party’s poor performance in the Bihar Assembly elections, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal in an interview on Monday conceded that people “do not consider Congress an alternative”. He also blamed the leadership for not recognising the matters ailing the party, despite knowing about them.
“If they do not recognise those answers, then the graph will continue to decline,” he warned.
In an interview with The Indian Express, Sibal pointed out that besides the Congress’ below-par performance in Bihar, where it won only 19 out of the 70 seats it contested, the party faced adverse outcomes in the bye-polls too.
“We lost all the bye-elections in Gujarat,” he pointed out. “Even in the Lok Sabha elections we had not won a single seat there. In some of the constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress candidates in the bye-elections notched up less than 2% of the votes cast. Three of our candidates in Gujarat lost their deposits. So the writing is on the wall.”
He expressed concerns over the fact that Congress has not been able to emerge as an alternative in big states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for decades now and is performing poorly even in states like Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, where...
