The Congress brass has begun introspection at a three-day-long ‘Nav Sankalp chintan shivir’ in Udaipur, but even as it sits down to draft its strategy ahead, reports from similar exercises in the past remain tucked away.
The latest one was a five-member committee headed by Maharashtra Minister Ashok Chavan, which submitted its report in June last year on the Congress’s defeat in Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, and Puducherry. The report, despite demands from members of the Congress Working Committee, was not tabled at the party’s highest decision-making forum.
After the 2014 Lok Sabha debacle, the party had similarly constituted a committee under A.K. Antony to probe the reasons for its defeat. The committee ended up being an exercise to exonerate the Gandhi family while blaming the party’s pro-minority image for the defeat.
