The odd man out is the Congress. Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan has resigned and there is no clarity on whether his resignation would be accepted or whether he would be asked to continue.The state Congress has held a few meetings but the only serious discussion has been on how to get Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi into Congress-NCP fold.“There is almost a paralysis of some kind. Ideally, we should have begun sending central observers to the state, appointing observers in the district, identifying issues that resonate among the people, started working on the manifesto committee so that we can give the people a manifesto. With just three months remaining, the work should have started by now. The Congress leader said the party had run out of ideas and was still in shock.“What else can explain the fact that the committee set up to attract Dalit votes is led by a man who lost because he could not woo Dalits in his own constituency?” said the Congress leader, referring to Shinde.

Source: Economic Times June 11, 2019 17:42 UTC