T tremors jolts Cong High Command
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday finally woke up to its disastrous showing at the hustings in Andhra Pradesh. A shocked Congress High Command went into a huddle to take stock of the situation and to indentify the causes of the debacle.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi in an unexpected move summoned both his political secretary Ahmed Patel and AICC general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad at her residence at 10 Janpath.
The trio, held a brainstorming session, trying to find out the reasons for its poor show in the state which till recently was considered a bastion for the Congress.
According to sources, the leadership was concerned more about its performance in future than about the fact of having lost out to TRS in the Telangana region.
All the possible scenarios were discussed threadbare during the one-hour meeting which includes changing the style of functioning of the Chief Minister and streamlining of the working of the leadership.
Though a coordination committee was set up prior to the elections to bring together the party and the government and to create a bonhomie between the two, the efforts did not pay the desired results.
The party leadership, it is learnt, has realised that it was more on the emotive issue of Telangana than the administrative failure that resulted in the total wash-out of the party in the elections.
Unless the party takes the call on the contentious issue of Telangana, it has little chance to improve its performance in the next round of by-elections, likely to take place around the month of May.
Caught in a tizzy, the party leadership has realised that it is more due to their indecision that the party is going downhill in Andhra Pradesh.
The Congress president, who was given the briefing by Azad and Ahmed Patel, has to take a final call along with the Prime Minister on the separate state of Telangana.
Any further delay on this issue would land the party in such a situation where it will lose out in both the regions of Telangana and Andhra.
News Posted: 24 March, 2012
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