The Congress on Thursday said the party was disappointed with the Bihar Assembly election results and Congress Working Committee (CWC) will take note of it and deliberate the issue.
Asked about the Bihar assembly results at the AICC Press, Chidambaram said,:we are definitely disappointed with the Bihar results but the vote difference between NDA and Grand alliance was just 3 per cent and the CWC will discuss and take a view on it.:
The party high command including former party chief Rahul Gandhi who campaigned extensively in the State is yet to react on the dismal performance of the party. The party also could not perform in other State bypolls including Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and others.
At the same time, another senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh asserted that the mandate is against Nitish Kumar and accepted that the Congress could have done much better. The former union minister said that despite 15 years of Nitish as chief minister Bihar remains one of the poorest states.
With the worst ever performance despite raking up the core issues like unemployment and price rise, the grand old party whose campaign was led by Rahul Gandhi.