New Delhi: Sanjay Singh, Congress MP from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, has been asked to explain his comments on the party's performance in the state's Assembly election.
Sanjay Singh had claimed that internal sabotage was to blame for the Congress's poor show in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections while coming down heavily on the party's strategy.
He had also pointed out that the party had favoured tickets to those who came from other parties. Singh's wife Amita, who contested on a Congress ticket from Gandhi bastion of Amethi, lost to Samajwadi Party candidate Gayatri Prasad by nearly 9,000 votes. Sources said that the Congress would take action only after Singh's explanation.
Singh had said that the Congress in Uttar Prdesh was top heavy.
"The leadership in UP is top heavy, there are too many leaders. I will not like to name anybody particular but everybody knows who is doing what. Sonia and Rahul said that there have been certain flaws in the campaign. People chose Samajwadi Party, but we could have been an option had tickets been given to right people and we had fought the election properly," he had said.
Despite a high-voltage campaign by Rahul Gandhi and a tie-up with the Rashtriya Lok Dal, the Congress could manage only 28 seats to end a distant fourth in Uttar Pradesh elections. The Samajwadi Party, led by Akhilesh Yadav, swept to power winning 224 seats, dethroning Mayawati whose party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, could manage just 80 seats.
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