Rahul Gandhi asks Bihar Congress to sort out alliance issues

PATNA: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held a three-hour online meeting of the party’s Bihar unit advisory committee on Friday where he is said to have given a deadline to sort out “alliance issues” or else explore “other alternatives”.
“It was decided to sort out alliance issues with other Grand Alliance constituents or we can go ahead with other alternatives.Whatever be the outcome, it has to be decided soon so that we can prepare accordingly for the polls,” said a senior Congress member, who was present at the meeting.
He added, “If we remain in the alliance, we will stress on bringing the ground level party workers together so that they know who are the alliance candidates. In the parliamentary election, ground-level workers of our alliance partners were not united and we had to suffer because of that.”
AICC general secretary KC Venugopal, Congress state in-charge Shaktisinh Gohil, AICC secretaries and Bihar in-charge Virendra Rathore and Ajay Kapoor, state president Madan Mohan Jha, CLP leader Sadanand Singh and Tariq Anwar were among others present at the meeting.
As per the statement issued by state Congress spokesperson Rajesh Rathore, Rahul said people of Bihar were fed up with the NDA government and wanted a change. “It is time that all the forces against the present government should be united and fight together and help in formation of a new government which will provide a better life to the people of Bihar.”
Rahul said that even though Bihar was culturally a rich state, because of bad governance, it was at the bottom with regard to development.
“Gohil will discuss issues related to our alliance and other poll preparations. Be it issues related to seat sharing or the seat from where we have to contest, all these have to be decided soon. We will not repeat the mistake we made in Lok Sabha elections and we will not compromise because of smaller parties this time,” the Congress leader said.