On his first visit to Chhattisgarh after taking over as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary in charge for the State, Sachin Pilot on January 11 described the party’s shock electoral loss in the Assembly elections as a collective failure.
“The Congress is a national party. When we win elections, it’s everyone’s victory; when we lose an election, it is everyone’s loss. I don’t think any one person can deliver a win or a loss, the entire organisation fights polls,” he said at a press conference in Raipur. The former Union Minister was replying to a question on whether the party had lost power due to a failure of its policies or because of an individual.
Since the election, a bunch of Congress leaders, including a former Minister, have blamed former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his erstwhile deputy T.S. Singh Deo for the loss, citing factors such as concentration of power and the purported feud between the two senior leaders.
