Congress: Congress takes solace from vote share – Assembly polls in Rajasthan | Jaipur News

JAIPUR: Congress leaders seem to take solace from the fact that the party could almost retain its voting percentage and a respectable defeat in the recent assembly polls in Rajasthan. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge convened the review meeting at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters where former party chief Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders were in attendance.Those who were present at the meeting included outgoing chief minister Ashok Gehlot, former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra, AICC secretary Jitendra Singh among others.
AICC in-charge for Rajasthan Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said, “Our vote share was also a little less than the BJP and it also improved a little bit from the last time.”
“Many of our candidates lost by a narrow margin and we told the senior leaders that we would start our preparations for the parliamentary elections from today itself. We will look into our shortcomings and work on them. We assured the leadership that we would fight the BJP unitedly in the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress fought the election in Rajasthan unitedly,” he told reporters after the meeting.
The leadership felt that it was after a long time that the Congress party had performed very well in Rajasthan though we could not repeat our government. After a long time, the party got so many seats, he said. On whether he offered to resign as in-charge of Rajasthan, Randhawa said, “I told the leadership that I was there only till the elections as I have to concentrate on Punjab also.” “I had said earlier that I would be there till the assembly elections. How we were left behind, we will look into this aspect,” he said while asserting that “we will fix accountability”.