CONGRESS PARTY DECIMATED IN DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
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Channel: DD News · 2015 · News & Politics
63 of the 70 Congress candidates, including senior leaders Ajay Maken, Kiran Walia, Haroon, Yousuf and President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha and Yoganand Shastri, forfeited their deposit in the Delhi Assembly polls, which witnessed AAP's landslide victory. A deserted Congress party office. A repeat of the "Priyanka lao, party bachao" chorus and top leaders resigning in wake of a no show in the Delhi elections. That was sums up the story of the Congress party which drew a blank in Delhi where it ruled for 15 long years. The fate of the grand old party which has been losing ground due to the strong anti-incumbency wave since 2013 continues to plunge. With the party drawing a duck in the Delhi polls a series of resignations followed. Congress general secretary and party's face for the Delhi Assembly polls, Ajay Maken and Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief Arvinder Singh Lovely were among the first to step down.
