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This story is from February 17, 2015

Post-Delhi loss, voices of discontent on rise in Congress

After a string of humiliating electoral defeats, including Delhi polls where it failed to open its account, murmurs of discontent in Congress are continuing to simmer.
Post-Delhi loss, voices of discontent on rise in Congress
NEW DELHI: After a string of humiliating electoral defeats, including Delhi polls where it failed to open its account, murmurs of discontent in Congress are continuing to simmer.
Former Congress office-bearer Anees Durrani has slammed party managers for the party’s state of affairs while former cabinet minister Kishore Chandra Deo has called the post-defeat turbulence as emblematic of a leadership crisis.
However, Congress seems to have chosen to ignore the spate of criticism.
In a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday, Durrani alleged that senior party functionaries misused their positions for personal gain and misinterpreted Congress policies that created its image as a party of upper castes.
Training his guns at two AICC general secretaries, Durrani said they should resign and asked the party chief the permission to hold a silent protest at the Akbar Road headquarters to force them to send in their papers.
The comment came a day after Deo warned of doom if the party failed to "restore the credibility of the leadership" in the wake of a string of debacles.
In a biting criticism of the party, Deo expressed concern over the feeling among Congressmen that money had become a measure for everything within the party. "Credibility of the party leadership should be restored in Congress. Otherwise, people will find another alternative which the country badly needs today because vacuum cannot exist in politics, vacuum cannot exist anywhere," he said.

After the party’s rout in Delhi polls, senior Congress functionaries have continued to question the leadership.
Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, questioned the way the Congress was being run, saying its "elitist" culture was producing "arrogance" and that it lacked "genuine" leaders.
"The culture (in Congress) has become elitist and arrogance grows from it. Our cadres are uncomfortable in such a situation," he said.
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