The outgoing Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot listed communal polarisation as one of the key reasons for Congress’s defeat in Rajasthan in the recent Assembly election, at a meeting to review the reasons for party’s debacle presided over by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge held in party headquarters in Delhi.
According to the sources, though, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi who was present among other senior leaders, said that there were deeper systemic issues and the blame should not be pinned on just one factor. He argued that, though the Rajasthan government came up with a robust welfare programme, it left the implementation to bureaucrats. The political leadership took over the reins too late in the day.
Party’s general secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal, AICC Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjunder Singh Randhawa and other senior State leaders including State president Govind Singh Dotasra, former Deputy CM Sachin Pilot, Speaker C.P. Joshi, former Union Minister Jitendra Singh were present at the meeting.
