‘Pandemic should not be used to cover up leadership’s failure to address organisational issues’
The Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP), headed by Sonia Gandhi, would be meeting virtually on Friday but a section of the party is asking why the leadership has not yet conducted a post-mortem of the Assembly election results.
It is the first time the CPP will meet virtually after the Budget session of Parliament ended on March 25 and will be attended by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former party chief Rahul Gandhi.
While some prominent members of the Group of 23 dissenters (G-23) like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal had publicly said the debate on poll performance can wait in the face of a public health emergency, others maintain that the pandemic should not be used to “cover up the leadership’s failure to address organisational issues”.
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Political compulsions were behind the limited share of seats for the Left parties in Tamil Nadu, said CPI general secretary D. Raja, ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. He also defended the Left Front’s alliance with Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui’s party Indian Secular Front (ISF) in Bengal.
The DMK has conceded only six seats each to the CPI and the CPI(M) in Tamil Nadu, when the latter had demanded a number that touched at least double digits.
“There are many political compulsions, which is understandable. We tried our best to get a good share, but that was not possible. We felt that it was far more critical to stall the BJP in the State, which is trying to get a foothold by riding on the AIADMK’s shoulders,” Mr. Raja told