VIJAYAWADA: The Congress will hold a meeting in the city Tuesday to review its dismal performance in the Parliamentary and Assembly elections.
Disclosing this to mediapersons here Monday, former minister Sake Sailajanath said that the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee would openly discuss the reasons behind the party’s flop show in the elections.
“We are meeting to introspect the lost elections and to chalk out a plan to strengthen the party. All the members of the party, who had contested in the last elections, are attending the meeting,” he added.
Sailajanath further said that the party would also discuss the election manifestos of TDP and BJP with a focus on the TDP’s loan waiver promise.
Former minister Devineni Rajasekhar aka Nehru said that the party had anticipated the defeat three months prior to the elections. “We knew that we were not in the competition even before the elections. Therefore, the results are not a disappointment to us. We are holding this meeting basically to discuss the plan to strengthen the party.”
Referring to the party’s show in the recent general elections, MLC Rudraraju Padmaraju said that the Congress had never seen such an electoral disaster in its history.
“We shall strive to revive the party’s glory. We shall don the role of watchdog to ensure that the people are benefited,” he added.
At least 300 members, including former MLAs, MPs and MLCs, will be participating in the meeting to be conducted at Parinaya Kalyana Mandapam in the city.
The committee members, including former MLA Malladi Vishnu, Devineni Avinash, District Congress Committee president Naraharisetti Narasimha Rao and City Congress president Adapa Nagendra were present.