Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member, Dr Sanjay Singh, claimed that ‘churning’ within the party is a good signal for the revival of the rank and file after the historic debacle of the party in the lok Sabha elections.
`’Such churning within the party leaders, some positive and some negative will give a good result and it will pave the path for the revival of the party,’’ he said. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday afternoon, Dr Singh, who is in-charge of the lucknow(East) assembly segment where by-elections is slated on September 13 said there is a need of introspection within the party after the lok Sabha defeat. ‘’ Congress has always rise to such occasions in the past and this time too they will do the same though this time the loss was historic,’’ he claimed.
When asked if the party high command should act strictly on the statements of some senior leaders against the leadership, Dr Singh said,’’ in a healthy democracy such debate is required and it will certainly lead to positive result.’’ Claiming that Congress would give surprises in the by-polls, he said that the party is expecting good results in the by-elections and it could even win a couple of seats. ‘’People are annoyed with both BJP and Samajwadi Party, hence Congress could be a surprise gainer,’’ he added.
Meanwhile, Congress lodged a strong protest and register a complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer, over alleged damaged to hoarding of Party candidate, Ramesh Srivastava, by the opposite party activists. ``It is a matter of shame and showed the extent to which the leader of opposition parties went to create hurdle in way of Congress candidate Ramesh Srivastava that they damaged our holdings put at Shalimar crossing, Arawali Marg and C Block crossings etc”, claimed Congress leader Amit Srivastava `Tyagi’.
He meet officials at CEO office where he registered a complaint in this regard on Tuesday afternoon. Amit claimed that the Party also organised a massive road show comprising of Congress MP, Sanjay Singh, who is also incharge of the lucknow (east) constituency, former Congress legislative Party leader and MP, Pramod Tewari, former Congress state president and MlA, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, and MlA Aradhana Mishra, besides party candidate Ramesh Srivastava and other senior leaders. The show which took off from lakshmanpuri, passed through Polytechnic crossing, Munshipuliya Service lane, Sector 21, DPS School, Sector 16, Sector 13, 13, Arbindo Park, Ishwar Dharam Temple, Central Academy, Panigaon, Rajeev Nagar, DK Marriage Hall, Kamla Nagar, Surendra Nagar, Ismailganj, Siwala Mandir, Sector 8 police outpost and finally concluded at Munshi Puliya, where a meeting was also organised. lastly, a public meeting was held at Patrakarpuram Crossing.