New Delhi: With the Congress suffering a crushing defeat in the latest round of assembly polls, party MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said it is time to reaffirm the idea of India that the Congress has stood for and reform the party’s organisational leadership in a manner that will reignite those ideas and inspire the people.
Tharoor, who was among the Group of 23 leaders, who wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi seeking an organisational overhaul, also said “change is unavoidable” for the party to succeed.
The BJP was headed for a second straight win in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh and was set to form governments in Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur as well, while the Aam Aadmi Party registered a landslide win in Punjab. The Congress suffered a big defeat in all the five states.