Ashok Gehlot Hit Back At Kapil Sibal For His Recent Statement

Ashok Gehlot hit back at Kapil Sibal, said- comments hurt workers across the country.

The Congress party is not ready to take lessons even after the Bihar assembly elections and the by-elections in many states.

Senior party leader Kapil Sibal criticized the party’s poor strategy in the Bihar Assembly.

Reversing this, Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan and close to the Gandhi family, said on Monday that senior party leader Kapil Sibal’s comments on the Bihar election results have hurt the sentiments of party workers across the country.

In a series of tweets, Ashok Gehlot hit back and said, “Sibal did not need to mention our internal issue in the media, this has hurt the sentiments of party workers across the country.”

Congress has seen several crises including 1969, 1977, 1989 and later 1996. But each time we have grown stronger due to our ideology, programs, policies and strong belief in party leadership.

We have improved ourselves with each other and in every crisis and also formed the UPA government in 2004 under the able leadership of Soniaji, this time too we will overcome it.

He added, ‘There are many reasons for the electoral defeat. But every time all the members of Congress have expressed undivided and strong faith in the party leadership.

So after every crisis, we emerged stronger and united. Congress is the only party that can keep the country united and move forward on the overall development path.

Senior party leader Kapil Sibal put the leadership in the dock over the Bihar debacle and said that the political problems of the Congress are not being resolved.

It is because of this that people are not seeing Congress as an effective alternative.

A few months ago, two dozen senior leaders wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi pointing out the party’s shortcomings and urging immediate measures.

But instead of implementing their suggestions, they were turned away from them and the result is out in Bihar.

The internal clutches of the Congress, which started with Sibal’s outspoken voice, may intensify in the coming days.

Underlining the Congress’s declining political appeal, Sibal said the party’s performance was not only in Bihar but in several states where by-elections were held.

In Madhya Pradesh, only eight out of 28 seats came to the party’s account, while in the by-election of eight seats in Gujarat, the Congress scored zero.

In Uttar Pradesh, there is no bail of the party candidates in the seats other than two.

The issue of the weak position of the Congress in these by-elections, including Uttar Pradesh, directly raised the leadership question because Priyanka Gandhi Vadra herself is the general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh.

According to Sibal, it is clear from the results of the by-elections with the Bihar elections that people are not seeing Congress as a strong alternative.

On P Chidambaram’s statement of introspection in the Congress Working Committee on the defeat of Bihar, Sibal said that the time of introspection is really over.

The party has not contemplated for six years, so how to expect that it will happen now. Expressing skepticism about the ability of nominated members in the Working Committee to improve the party to voice irresponsibly.

Sibal said that only those voices are heard by those who have surrounded the party leadership. He also insisted that the members of the working committee be selected by-election.