Congress held review meeting on Haryana poll defeat to form fact-finding team Haryana Election News

Haryana AICC in-charge Deepak Babria joined the online meeting.

However, Haryana Congress chief Uday Bhan and CLP leader and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda or any other senior leaders from the state were not summoned for the meeting.

“We held a review meeting on the Haryana election results. As everyone knows, as exit polls and opinion polls showed, the results were unexpected.

“There was a big difference between the exit polls and the actual results. We discussed what could be the reason for this. We will take appropriate action in this regard,” Macon told reporters after the meeting.

Asked if the infighting in the polls had harmed Congress's chances, Maken said: “There are several factors, from the Electoral Commission to internal differences, we discussed what we will do in the future because of such a big disaster… we can discuss everything in an hour or so. half. “No.”

A fact-finding committee will be announced once the party meets to analyze the results, said a source present at the meeting. The commission will talk to candidates and party leaders and explain the reasons for the 'unexpected results'.

The Congress President's office later issued a statement.

“The party has decided to appoint a technical team to look into the allegations and discrepancies mentioned by our candidates. The Congress party will issue a detailed response based on the report of the fact-finding team,” the AICC secretary attached to the Congress president said. Pranab Jha, said. declaration

He said that after the Congress met on Thursday to discuss the election results in Haryana, many reports based on sources were circulated in the media.

“We ask that you follow our official briefing and avoid any speculation that deviates from the official briefing,” Jha said in his statement published on X.

The meeting comes a day after the Congress demanded a thorough probe into the “inconsistencies” found in some electronic voting machines (EVMs) during Haryana's poll counting and demanded that such EVMs be sealed pending the investigation.

A delegation of top Congress leaders, including former chief ministers Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Ashok Gehlot and AICC leaders KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken and Pawan Khera, besides Haryana Congress chief Uday Bhan, met meet here with senior officials from the Electoral Commission on Wednesday.

The delegation handed over a memorandum to the officials with specific grievances of various constituencies in Haryana. Senior party leader Abhishek Singhvi participated in the online meeting.

Congress leaders have claimed that there are at least 20 complaints, including seven written ones coming from assembly centers, many citing EVMs operating at 99 percent battery capacity, while average EVMs operate at 60 to 70 percent. Battery capacity during calculation.

Infighting, dependence on MLAs and insurgency issues seemed to be some of the factors that contributed to the Congress's failure to return to Haryana after a decade.

The party seemed confident of overturning the rule of the BJP which had been in power for 10 years and faced opposition to power.

However, the BJP, with 48 seats, thwarted the Congress's comeback attempt and also proved wrong in several exit polls that predicted a comfortable victory for the grand old party in Haryana. The Congress got 37 seats in the 90-member assembly.