Party has embarks on exercise to find reasons for LS poll debacle
Panel will examine all party stalwarts
Rules out possibility of taking over Goa Congress
TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
MARGAO: Asserting that the Congress in Goa should be re-built right from the grass-roots, All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Luizinho Faleiro on Monday said that the Congress party has embarked on an all India exercise to find out the reasons behind the party debacle in the just concluded Lok Sabha poll.
The former chief minister, however, has firmly ruled out his return to the State as president of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC).
“The party has constituted a panel to evaluate the result and to find out the reason behind the defeat of the Congress in the husting,” Faleiro said, when questioned whether the party leadership will initiate disciplinary action against anti-party activities by party leaders against the party candidates in Goa.
He said the panel has been put in place after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has mooted the committee to find out the reasons behind the defeat. “The panel will examine the party chief ministers, PCC presidents, Congress Legislative Party chiefs and others party leaders in connection with the party defeat. The exercise is presently underway,” he said, while refusing to go into the reasons behind the party’s defeat in both the North and South Goa Lok Sabha seats.
He said that Congress party chief ministers, PCC chiefs and CLP leaders hailing from the North Eastern states have been called by the Congress panel examine the party’s performance in the Lok Sabha poll.
Though Faleiro has declined to comment on the state of affairs in the Goa Congress, he is on record saying that the party has no alternative than to go to the grass roots to re-build the party organisation. “I am being told that there is no party organisation in place in some of the hinterland constituencies of south Goa. There were not even agents to man the booths on the day of the poll. We have to build the party right from the grass roots,” he asserted.
