Sushil Modi criticises Congress, says party drowned deep in "dynastic politics & corruption"

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Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Goa have elected the BJP again to govern in a fresh boost to the party, also ruling at the centre, as the latest round of state elections recently concluded. But the Congress was voted out of power in Punjab, the only state among the five that it was ruling. In a meeting on Sunday, however, the party's top body yet again reaffirmed "its faith in the leadership", urging Sonia Gandhi to "lead from the front". Criticising the Congress, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi said the party had drowned deep in "dynastic politics and corruption". "Sonia Gandhi is an interim chief of the Congress. There has been no full-time president for many years. Rahul Gandhi has been working like a de-facto supremo. The party leaders have lost the will to save the internal democracy and the party," the 70-year-old leader said in a tweet. "Drowned in corruption and dynastic politics, the Congress has been pretending to brainstorm since many years."

In a series of tweets in Hindi, he lashed out at Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for leading the UP campaign, and the party over the upcoming state polls too. "In Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said she was the face of the Congress. She raise the slogan - 'Ladki hun, lad sakti hun". Yet the party got two seats. Nobody asked her to quit from the post of national secretary." "After a shameful defeat in five states, Congress leaders don't have the courage to make their party Gandhi-mukt. Another state has got rid of the party. In the upcoming polls, the party will lose Chhatisgarh and Rajasthan too," he wrote.

At the meeting of the Congress working commitee on Sunday, the party said it has "decided to have a detailed deliberation on the party strategy and way forward in the upcoming elections in 2022, 2023 and 2024. A 'Chinta Shivir' of the senior leaders will be held immediately after the current Parliament session."

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