Our leader walked away: Khurshid on Cong problems

October 08, 2019 16:24

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid has said the departure of Rahul Gandhi as the party's president after the defeat in the Lok Sabha elections has left everyone in a lurch.

Salman Khurshid also said the Congress is facing a wave of desertions because it is taking too long to come to terms with its defeat in the April-May parliamentary elections.

"We haven't really got together to analyse why we got defeated. Our biggest problem is our leader has walked away," Khurshid said on late on Monday

The former Union minister also said that Rahul Gandhi still retains the allegiance of the party.

"It's kind of left a vacuum. Sonia Gandhi stepped in, but there is more than an indication that she is treating herself as a stop-gap arrangement. I wish it wasn't so," Khurshid said.

Weeks ahead of the assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra, the senior leader said its struggles are at the point that it may not be able to win these state polls or ensure its own future.

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