Move to seek inputs from partymen healthy beginning in Congress: Ashwani Kumar

NEW DELHI: Former Law Minister Ashwani Kumar today said Congress President Sonia Gandhi's move to seek inputs from partymen to overcome the shortcomings is a "healthy" beginning towards removing the "disconnect within the party and outside.

"This is indeed a healthy beginning towards removing the discontent within the party and with masses," he told PTI after the meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party.

Noting that a meeting of the CWC has already deliberated on the causes leading to the electoral defeat, Gandhi said "that the meeting was only a beginning", hinting at more elaborate exercises to dwell deeply on the causes of the drubbing the party got.

"Your role in that exercise will be crucial and I invite you to participate in it in the days ahead. I have been asked by the CWC to undertake whatever steps necessary to revamp the party organisation at all levels," she said, addressing the CPP.

Sonia Gandhi noted that the party could not win even a single seat in many states and emphasised that the setback in the polls should not be allowed to negate "very far-reaching and enduring achievements of the Congress-led UPA government."