New Delhi: Congress suffered a massive drubbing in the 2016 Assembly elections in four states including loss of power in Assam and Kerala. Following the rout, veteran leaders are yet again rooting for an overhaul in the grand-old party.
Today's results disappointing but not unexpected. We have done enough Introspection shouldn't we go for a Major Surgery? Digvijaya Singh, who is AICC General Secretary, said in a tweet.
There have been no changes in the AICC secretariat since the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in which the party had its worst ever performance by securing just 44 seats in the 543-member House.
Digvijaya's suggestion has come at a time when there is talk of the much delayed reshuffle in the AICC secretariat likely to be carried out soon and indications are that Rahul Gandhi could be elevated as party chief.
The party was dethroned in Kerala too. The UDF-led alliance won 50 seats in the state.
This is the Congress’ lowest showing ever. Even when it lost power at the Centre in the past, it always was in power in more than a dozen states. When it received its latest drubbing in 2014 at the hands of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, the Congress remained in power in 11 states.
It has just lost Assam and Kerala and is now in power in six states out of 30: Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Manipur. Its presence, or return to power, in Puducherry is not even notional because it is the All India N Rangaswamy Congress (AINRC), a breakaway faction of the Congress, which is fighting on its own.
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