The Congress on Monday mentioned it’s going to search dialogue on people-centric points like unemployment, rising costs, “the widening gap between the rich and the poor” within the nation, the border state of affairs and the nation’s overseas coverage through the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.
Talking to reporters, senior social gathering chief Jairam Ramesh mentioned Congress Parliamentary Get together chairperson Sonia Gandhi chaired a gathering of the social gathering’s Parliamentary Technique Group, which was additionally attended by president Mallikarjun Kharge, to debate the technique for the Winter Session.
Ramesh mentioned the Congress anticipated the Centre to debate these points because the Parliament session was the final substantive session forward of subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha election.
He additionally mentioned the state of affairs in Manipur, which has been hit by ethnic violence since Could, was nonetheless a reason for concern even after seven months and demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi “should break his silence”.
“This was not the demand of the Congress party alone, but all the INDIA parties,” Ramesh mentioned, whereas referring to the Opposition bloc.
ON PERFORMANCE IN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
Reflecting on the Congress’s debacle within the recently-held meeting polls, Ramesh mentioned the outcomes “were disappointing” however asserted that the social gathering was not “dispirited or dejected”.
“No doubt the results were disappointing and much below the expectations of the party but the party will continue to fight. We will fight with all earnestness, vigour and determination,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief mentioned the social gathering would analyse the outcomes and maintain an in depth dialogue.
The grand outdated social gathering was dislodged by the BJP in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, whereas it didn’t put up a problem in Madhya Pradesh. The social gathering received 35 of the 90 seats in Chhattisgarh, 69 of the 199 seats in Rajasthan and 66 of the 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh. In Mizoram, the Congress received only one seat.
The social gathering, nevertheless, defeated Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), in Telangana and scooped up 64 of the 119 meeting seats.