‘Leaders put themselves above party interest…’, Rahul Gandhi’s blunt statement in Haryana review meeting

New Delhi: After the defeat in Haryana assembly elections, a review round is going on in Congress. After the defeat in Haryana, today the Congress leadership held the first important meeting with the state leaders. This meeting was held at the residence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge, in which Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi also participated.

Organization General Secretary KC Venugopal, Haryana State President Uday Bhan, Bhupendra Singh Hooda, In-charge Deepak Babaria, Haryana Observer Ashok Gehlot, Ajay Maken, Pratap Singh Bajwa were also called in the meeting. According to sources, during the meeting Rahul Gandhi said that the leaders put personal interest above personal interest in the election.

Rahul Gandhi said that the party’s interest came second in the entire election and the interest of the leaders dominated. Sources said that a fact-finding committee will be formed to investigate the election results, which will be announced soon. After the meeting ended, Ajay Maken said that the results are shocking and unexpected. He said, ‘Today we held a meeting and discussed the reasons for the defeat in Haryana. We will continue our analysis… KC Venugopal will tell you later about the next action.’

Earlier, Rahul Gandhi had indicated a possible meeting with the Election Commission in an attempt to lodge a “complaint” against the alleged malfunctioning of EVMs in a post on X. He wrote on X, We are analyzing the unexpected result of Haryana. We will inform the Election Commission about the complaints coming from many assembly constituencies. Heartfelt thanks to all the people of Haryana for their support and our Babbar Sher workers for their tireless hard work. We will continue this struggle for rights, social and economic justice, truth, we will keep raising your voice.

Let us tell you that BJP has won a huge majority in 48 out of 90 seats in the Haryana assembly elections. At the same time, Congress, which failed to take advantage of the anti-incumbency wave against BJP, which has been in power for ten years, has won 37 seats. Apart from this, INLD has won 2 seats. Along with this, independent candidates have also won. However, he has announced his support to the BJP after meeting the high command.