In a blunt comment over Congress’s back-to-back poll debacle in Haryana in Maharashtra, social gathering’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge emphasised on the criticism from inside the outfit itself and mentioned that “sometimes, we become our biggest enemies”.
Congress nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge and LoP Rahul Gandhi (Image/PTI)
In a blunt comment over Congress’s back-to-back poll debacle in Haryana in Maharashtra, social gathering’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge emphasised on the criticism from inside the outfit itself and mentioned that “sometimes, we become our biggest enemies”.
Kharge was addressing the Congress Working Committee (CWC) assembly in New Delhi.
He mentioned, “Sometimes we ourselves become our biggest enemy. We ourselves will talk negatively and depressingly about ourselves and say that we do not have any narrative. Then I ask, whose responsibility is it to create the narrative and convey it to the public? This is a collective responsibility. The narrative that we had set at the national level is still applicable”, as quoted by The Indian Express.
Stressing on the necessity for state management, the social gathering president requested the employees “till when they would depend on the party’s national faces.”
“We may have lost the elections, but there is no doubt that unemployment, inflation, and economic inequality are burning issues. Caste census is also an important issue today. Issues like the Constitution, social justice and harmony are issues of the people. But this does not mean that we forget the important local issues in the electoral states. It is also important to understand the different issues of the states in detail in time and make a solid campaign strategy around them. Till when will you fight the state elections with the help of national issues and national leaders?” Mallikarjun Kharge identified.
Kharge additional remarked that the shortage of unity and statements towards one another places the social gathering in a nasty place.
“We need to immediately learn from the election results and correct all our weaknesses and shortcomings at the organisational level. These results are a message for us. The most important thing that I keep saying is that lack of unity and statements against each other harm us a lot. Unless we fight elections unitedly and stop making statements against each other, how will we be able to defeat our opponents politically? Therefore, it is important that we strictly follow discipline. We have to remain united under all circumstances,” he mentioned.
Notably, the grand-old-party has been on the receving finish of brickbats, following its poor present in Haryana and Maharashtra meeting polls.
What did Kharge say on EVMs?
Owing to the opposition’s fixed claims involving the purported “hacking of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)”, Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned that the outcomes of the meeting polls are “beyond the understanding”, given the opposition’s spectacular efficiency within the Lok Sabha polls 2024.
“I believe that EVM has made the electoral process suspicious. The Election Commission is a Constitutional institution, so the less said about it the better. However, it is the constitutional responsibility of the Election Commission to ensure free and fair elections in the country. Questions are being raised again and again as to what extent this responsibility is being fulfilled. After the kind of results that came in favour of MVA in the Lok Sabha just six months ago, the result of the Assembly elections is beyond the understanding of even political pundits”, he mentioned.
The social gathering president additionally known as for constructing a stronger micro-communiation technique.
“We should enhance the methods of contesting elections in each state of affairs. Because instances have modified. The methods of contesting elections have modified. We should make our micro-communication technique higher than the opponents. We should discover methods to struggle propaganda and misinformation. We should transfer ahead by studying classes from the earlier outcomes. The flaws should be eliminated. Tough selections should be taken with confidence,” Kharge mentioned.
