Rahul Gandhi analyses UP poll outcome at party meet - NewsX

A weak organisation, controversy over Muslim sub-quota in jobs and union ministers speaking "out of turn" were among the reasons that led to the debacle of Congress in recent Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Rahul Gandhi, who had led the party in the polls, heard these and other reasons today as he set out on the first review of the poll defeat. Gandhi held parleys with party candidates, who lost despite securing more than 20,000 votes, on the first day of a two-day exercise aimed at making the party battle-ready for the Lok Sabha polls in 2014. The Congress leader was told by the 150-odd defeated candidates that the party lacked a strong organisation in the state as compared to SP and BSP which have dominated the politics of Uttar Pradesh for over a decade.
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