New Delhi. After the results of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress Working Committee held a meeting on Saturday. All the big leaders including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi attended the meeting of the working committee chaired by Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge. Addressing this meeting, Mallikarjun Kharge said that the people of Congress have to remain disciplined and united. Kharge said that the public has shown a lot of trust in us. More work will have to be done on this. In the Congress Working Committee, the president said that he accepts the Lok Sabha election results with full humility. He asked to pause for a while for celebration. Giving the reason for this, Kharge said that in some states we did not perform as per our capacity and expectations.
Sharing excerpts from my Opening Remarks in the Extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) Meeting, held today —
1. The Congress Working Committee congratulates leaders and crores of workers their determination, will power and resolve. People have spoken against the dictatorial… pic.twitter.com/eM05x2PMh2
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) June 8, 2024
In the Congress Working Committee meeting, Mallikarjun Kharge said that in the states where the party had performed well in the assembly elections and formed the government, it could not repeat the performance during the Lok Sabha elections. He said that Congress is soon going to brainstorm separately for each such state. Kharge said that in the states where Congress is in power and could not perform well in the Lok Sabha elections, reforms will have to be brought immediately. Kharge said that we have opportunities in such states. These opportunities have to be used for the public, not for ourselves. Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge also said that if he did not accept the allies of the Indi alliance, he would have failed in his duty. He said that every party in the alliance played its role and contributed to the other.
Let us tell you that Congress is excited that it has got more seats this time than in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, but its figure got stuck at 99. Whereas, Congress had contested on more than 300 seats. In UP, the opposition has given a shock to BJP in its stronghold by performing well, but Congress could not do much here either. SP had given it 17 seats in UP, but Congress could win only 7 seats. Whereas, SP’s seats went beyond 30. Congress did not benefit despite alliance in many other states as well. It suffered a bad fate in 16 states.