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indiaUpdated: Nov 17, 2020, 01:41 ISTSibal, a former union minister and one of the 23 signatories to a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in August this year seeking internal elections and an organisational overhaul, questioned the leadership in the wake of the Bihar debacle.
(PTI file photo)Questions are being asked of the Congress following its dismal show in the Bihar assembly elections with senior leader Kapil Sibal asking the leadership if it is “business as usual” and Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot responding to him., claiming the remark has “hurt the sentiments” of party workers and reminding him that the party had been through similar crises several times in the past.
Sibal, a former union minister and one of the 23 signatories to a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in August this year seeking internal elections and an organisational overhaul, questioned the leadership in the wake of the Bihar debacle.
Gehlot countered Sibal with a series of tweets and defended the leadership, saying there are various reasons for electoral setbacks and that the Congress will come out stronger from the present crisis as had happened in the past as well.
“Congress has seen various crises including 1969, 1977, 1989 and later in 1996 -- but every time we came out stronger due to our ideology, programmes, policies and firm belief in party leadership,” the Rajasthan chief minister added.