Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul hold infighting and wrong ticket distribution responsible for defeat of Congress in Haryana
The meeting of the top leaders of the Congress in the presence of Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, K.C.Venugopal , Jai Ram Ramesh, Kumari Shelja, and several leaders of Haryana Congress, Mr. Babaria, Ajay Makan, Ashok Gehlot and Randeep Singh Surjewala is going on at the residence of the party chief Mr.Kharge. The senior Congress leader and former chief minister of Haryana Bhupendra Singh Hooda was conspicuous by his absence.
It is believed that the Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi , LOP and the party chief Mallikarjun Kharge etc were extremely annoyed over the shameful defeat of the Congress party as a result of its dismal performance in Haryana with Rahul and Mallikarjun Kharge blaming the internal squabbles and fight between Kumari Shelja and Randeep Singh Surjewala majorly responsible for this shameful defeat.
According to reliable sources Rahul Gandhi has catagorically blamed the senior leaders of the party for giving preference to personal vested interests than the party interests and giving tickets to near and dear ones than those who actually deserved.
The infighting in Haryana Congress is well known to all especially the infighting between Kumari Shelja and Randeep Singh Surjewala n among other factions too that has helped BJP to capitalise the drawback within Congress turning the tables on Congress altogether despite the fact that majority of the exit polls have declared Congress party a sure sort winner. There are reports that a fact finding team has been constituted which will go to Haryana and find the reasons for this unexpected defeat.
The BJP has won on 48 assembly seats in Haryana and would be continuing for the third term in succession whereas the highly optimistic Congress party got 37 seats only dashing all its hopes.
Meanwhile, after the Congress party’s defeat in Haryana senior journalist and political analyst K.P. Malik who has quite an experience to cover and understand the jal politics minutely said that Haryana Congress was ruined by its overconfidence adding further that the strongest leader of Haryana Congress Bhupendra Hooda also the strongest contender for the CM post in Haryana, could not unite the Jat community, let alone others. In about one and a half dozen seats, Jat candidates proved to be vote cutters. Apart from this, K of Congress’s SRK went to BJP and B came from BJP, so in this election, the internal tussle of SRB was visible till the end. Shailja’s keeping away from the election due to her people not getting tickets was enough to give BJP a chance. In the end, Congress failed to maintain the alliance of Jats, Dalits and backward classes and BJP succeeded in breaking this alliance. And succeeded in forming the government for the third time. Congress not forming an alliance with Aam Aadmi Party and staying in the air instead of building strength on the ground is also considered to be a big reason for Congress’s defeat. Five big mantras of BJP’s victory: 1. Congress’s internal fight 2. Consolidation of non-Jat votes 3. Bet on Naib Saini 4. Ground work of Sangh and BJP 5. And the trump card is Ram Rahim wrote Malik on his social media handle X.
There was a cumulative resentment by Haryana Congress leaders and candidates accusing the leadership for not able to control the squabbles and factionalism in the party with Bhupendra Singh Hooda the main suspect and culprit in this shameful defeat. Randeep Surjewala, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Kumari Shelja were the leaders responsible for these defeats in Haryana reveal sources. Majority of the Haryana leaders and candidates who lost on Congress ticket held Bhupinder Singh Hooda responsible accusing him for making rebels contest in atleast 15 seats leading to the defeat of Congress candidates despite the fact that there was a massive wave in favour of Congress with optimism of Congress winning in 60 to 70 seats.
