Jaipur: After losing Assembly elections, infighting in Congress is once again came to the fore. City Congress president RR Tiwari, who was the party candidate from the Hawa Mahal seat, has accused local Congress leaders of acting as ‘traitors’ to defeat their own party candidates.
At a programme organised on the Republic Day at the city Congress office, Tiwari said the party should be cautious of such leaders during the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Congress fielded Tiwari from the Hawa Mahal seat by denying the party ticket to the then sitting MLA and PHED minister Mahesh Joshi. Party men said Tiwari was indirectly blaming Joshi for his defeat.
Earlier, the Congress candidate from Malviya Nagar seat, Archana also expressed similar sentiments after losing the assembly election.
Tiwari said, “We are workers of the Congress. We have to take into account many things. Victory and losses will continue and governments will keep changing. Of the eight seats in Jaipur city, only two of our friends could win, six of us lost. It was not a loss, but party candidates were defeated by our own people standing on our left and right.”
Tiwari said this candidly for the first time after he lost the state poll by a slender margin of less than 1,000 votes in December last year. He advised the workers to pledge their loyalty to the party instead of these leaders to strengthen the Congress. He said no party can succeed where leaders were working against the interest of their own party.
Tiwari said that these kinds of people do not work, they come only to get photographed and by getting photographed they assume themselves to be big leaders. He said, “It is a bitter truth.”
At a programme organised on the Republic Day at the city Congress office, Tiwari said the party should be cautious of such leaders during the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Congress fielded Tiwari from the Hawa Mahal seat by denying the party ticket to the then sitting MLA and PHED minister Mahesh Joshi. Party men said Tiwari was indirectly blaming Joshi for his defeat.
Earlier, the Congress candidate from Malviya Nagar seat, Archana also expressed similar sentiments after losing the assembly election.
Tiwari said, “We are workers of the Congress. We have to take into account many things. Victory and losses will continue and governments will keep changing. Of the eight seats in Jaipur city, only two of our friends could win, six of us lost. It was not a loss, but party candidates were defeated by our own people standing on our left and right.”
Tiwari said this candidly for the first time after he lost the state poll by a slender margin of less than 1,000 votes in December last year. He advised the workers to pledge their loyalty to the party instead of these leaders to strengthen the Congress. He said no party can succeed where leaders were working against the interest of their own party.
Tiwari said that these kinds of people do not work, they come only to get photographed and by getting photographed they assume themselves to be big leaders. He said, “It is a bitter truth.”