PATNA: The ruling JD(U) and BJP on Tuesday attacked the
Congress after its
Bihar incharge
Shaktisinh Gohil’s request to the party high command to relieve him from the post and, instead, allocate him some lighter responsibility.
The Rajya Sabha member himself revealed it through a tweet on Monday. The development came nearly three months after the announcement of Bihar assembly election results. Gohil had earlier sent his
resignation letter
to the party high command owning responsibility for the party's dismal performance in the
assembly elections
. However, his resignation was not accepted.
JD(U) spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said, “Gohil has offered to relinquish the post of Bihar incharge due to the party’s drubbings in the elections. Congress has lost its support base in the state and the internal conflict within the party is at its peak. Gohil wants to quit the post as he has been made a scapegoat.”
BJP spokesperson Nikhil Anand said Congress has virtually ceased to exist on the ground. “The party is running short of workers. Its presence is limited to social media platforms,” he said.
Gohil was made incharge of Bihar affairs of the party in April 2018, a year before the Lok Sabha polls. However, Congress failed to perform on expected lines in both the Lok Sabha and state assembly polls. In 2020 assembly elections, Congress could win only 19 of the 70 seats it had contested.
Some party leaders, however, attributed the reason for Gohil’s move to his ill health. “He was tested positive for Covid-19 in November last year. Though Gohil recovered from the virus, he is not keeping well since then,” Congress spokesperson
Rajesh Rathod said.
Rathod said not only the leaders, but workers of the party are equally responsible for poor show in the assembly elections.
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