Gujarat result | ‘Our alternative style didn’t work, AAP offered novel, new idea’, says Congress leader Salman Khurshid
The Hindu
Speaking on the Gujarat Assembly elections, in which the Congress won just 17 seats, Mr. Khurshid said the party was in difficulty even before the polls
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid said on Monday his party's "alternative style and method" didn't work in the Assembly polls in Gujarat, where the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) offered "novel and new idea" and hurt the M. Mallikarjun Kharge-led outfit's electoral prospects.
The former Union Minister said the Assembly election results in Himachal Pradesh, where the Congress edged the BJP out of power, has given the party a new sense of purpose.
"And I hope that we will make this into a model State (Himachal Pradesh)", Mr. Khurshid told PTI.
The Congress won just 17 seats in Gujarat, while bagging 40 seats in the 68-member Himachal House.
Speaking on the Gujarat Assembly elections, he said the party was in difficulty even before the polls.
"Lot of our Gujarat politics was based on what happened before the last election...Patidar movement and so on...we considerably shifted our base to try and capture something that we haven't had in the past but unfortunately it wasn't sustainable, it didn't stay put and they drifted again from us. In a sense, our medium term and long term planning was a little bit in disarray because of that. We tried to put together an alternative style, alternative method, but sadly it didn't work," he said.
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