: Congress forms five-member panel to evaluate dismal performance in Assembly elections #IndiaNEWS The Congress on Tuesday set up a five-member group headed by former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok

Congress forms five-member panel to evaluate dismal performance in Assembly elections #IndiaNEWS
The Congress on Tuesday set up a five-member group headed by former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan to evaluate the party’s dismal performance in the Assembly elections, reported PTI. The results of elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and Assam were declared on May 2.Other members of the group are Salman Khurshid, Manish Tewari, Vincent H Pala and Jothi Mani, the party said. The group will submit its report within two weeks. The Congress was decimated in West Bengal, where the Trinamool Congress won with a tally of 213 of 294 seats. The Congress also failed to defeat incumbent governments in Kerala and Assam. In Puducherry, the party was defeated by the NR Congress-led National Democratic Alliance. However, in Tamil Nadu, the Congress was a constituent of the winning Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led alliance.The decision to form a panel that would exclusively look into the party’s electoral performance came a day after Congress President Sonia Gandhi admitted that her party needed to “put its house in order??? .“We have to take note of our serious setbacks,??? Gandhi had said in her opening remarks at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee. “To say we are deeply disappointed is to make an understatement. I intend to set up a small...Read more

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