2/13/2020 Congress Turmoil Grows: Some Of Us Behave Like We Are Still Ministers

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The Congress elded 66 candidates and 63 forfeited their deposit, which means they did not win even MWC 2020 Redmi Note
one-sixth of the votes in their constituencies.
All India Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh Updated: February 13, 2020 06:00 pm IST

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The Congress has been jolted

by its second straight duck in
Delhi

Jyotiraditya Scindia called

Delhi poll debacle "extremely
disappointing"

Jairam Ramesh said the

party needed to "reinvent"
itself

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New Delhi: Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia today called the party's Delhi
election debacle "extremely disappointing" and called for a "new approach",
3 'The Big Bull' New Poster: joining the rapidly growing league of party leaders calling for change. Another
Abhishek Bachchan's
leader, Jairam Ramesh, said the party needed to "ruthlessly reinvent itself" to stay
Intense Look Says It All
relevant and commented that "some of us" behave as if "we are still ministers"
even six years after losing power. Both Mr Scindia and Mr Ramesh are former
union ministers.

"Congress leaders have to reinvent themselves. Otherwise, we are staring at

irrelevance. Our arrogance has to go, even after six years out of power
sometimes, some of us behave as if we are still ministers," Mr Ramesh said,
adding that the "substance and style" of the party's leadership had to change.

Right after the election results, Jyotiraditya Scindia had congratulated Arvind
Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its 62/70 sweep and said the people of
Delhi had placed their "trust" on their team again.

"The results are extremely disappointing. Congress needs a new approach, a new
way of doing things...we strongly need a new approach. Times have changed, the
country has changed. We'll have to reach out to people. After the Lok Sabha polls,
we have formed governments in few states," said Mr Scindia, who is said to be
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Rishi Sunak, Son-In- Statements Like "Suit Up, Junior": "Delhi Law And
"Astronomical Price
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widely Oath
respected three-time chief minister who died last year - has Shaheen Bagh

not been spared.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi last night accepted the resignation of PC

Chacko - the party's Delhi in-charge - and Subhash Chopra, who headed the Delhi
Congress unit.

Mr Chacko resigned after making the shocking remark that the party's "downfall"
started when Sheila Dikshit was Chief Minister and AAP was born.

"The downfall of the Congress party started in 2013 when Sheila ji was the CM.
The emergence of a new party, AAP took away the entire Congress vote bank. We
could never get it back. It still remains with AAP," Mr Chacko told ANI.

He was schooled by Maharashtra Congress leader Milind Deora, who called

Sheila Dikshit a remarkable politician and administrator and said it was
"unfortunate to see her being blamed after her death."

Several Congress leaders said after its decimation in Delhi, the party needed
"action" rather than "introspection".

We r again decimated in Delhi.Enuf of introspection, time 4 action now. Inordinate

delay in decision making at the top, lack of strategy & unity at state level,
demotivated workers, no grassroots connect-all r factors.Being part of d system, I
too take my share of responsibility

— Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) February 11, 2020

No time to retrospect.Enough of we doing that after every defeat.We dont do the

same after every win. Now is the time for action.Lets take it from
#MahatmaGandhi n begin with "Be the change you want to see". We need to
change ourselves.We need to grow out of our fears.We have to.

— KhushbuSundar ❤ (@khushsundar) February 11, 2020

3 Things Congress should NOT do today:

1. Justify own defeat
2. Find happiness in BJP defeat
3. Tell themselves that in Election wins & losses are cyclic

Congratulations to @AamAadmiParty for a well deserved victory & running a

focussed campaign.

#DelhiElectionResults

— Jaiveer Shergill (@JaiveerShergill) February 11, 2020

When senior leader P Chidambaram praised AAP, he was told off by his junior
colleague Sharmistha Mukherjee.

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With due respect sir, just want to know- has @INCIndia outsourced the task of
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With due respect sir, just want to know has @INCIndia outsourced the task of
Rishi Sunak, Son-In- defeating BJP toLike
Statements state parties? If not, then why r we gloating over
"SuitAAP victory
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Amit
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Minister Shah On Delhi Loss Oath Shaheen Bagh

— Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) February 11, 2020

Later, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said criticized the blame-game

and said it would be "better if Congress leaders had looked at, introspected on
their own role, their own responsibility, their own commitment to the party and
de ned their own duty towards the campaign in Delhi."

Mr Surjewala admitted that the party would go back to the drawing board and
there would be a revamp in the Delhi unit.

The Congress elded 66 candidates and 63 forfeited their deposit, which means
they did not win even one-sixth of the votes in their constituencies. Its vote share
also dropped to the lowest since the 1990s.

Senior leader Veerappa Moily called for a "surgical" action to revive the party in
the context of the Delhi election drubbing.

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