NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leaders questioned the party’s decision to ally with AIUDF in Assam in the recent elections, saying sensitive issues should have been determined by keeping the national perspective in view, suggesting that such alliances only spark or consolidate a counter-polarisation.
The remarks by two seniors, Digvijaya Singh and Ghulam Nabi Azad, a leading member of the G-23 group of dissenters, are a rewind to the post-2014 diagnosis led by Sonia Gandhi and A K Antony that BJP’s painting of Congress as a “pro-minority” party was a factor behind the Lok Sabha rout.
The meeting of the Congress Working Committee on Monday saw Singh slamming the tie-up with AIUDF. West Bengal in-charge Jitin Prasada said ally Left’s decision to rope in the newly-launched Muslim outfit ISF was a bad decision which hurt Congress.