Gear up for polls next year: Sonia
Gargi Parsai
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday called upon her party MPs to prepare for the general elections “next year,” virtually ruling out, for now, the possibility of early polls.
Speaking at a Congress Party Parliamentary meeting in Parliament House, she expressed the confidence that the party’s “outstanding record of achievements would earn it the trust and the mandate of the people once again.”
Expressing “disappointment” over the Congress performance in the recent Assembly elections in some States, she said the party must learn its lessons. It lost prestigious elections in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and more recently in Tripura and Nagaland.
Summarising what she expected of party members, Ms. Gandhi said: “We need much harder work, meticulous preparation, much more careful selection of candidates, [better] strategies, much greater unity and discipline.”
Assembly elections are due this year in some crucial States, including Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi.
Source : hindu.com
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