New Delhi: Top Congress leaders, led by Sonia Gandhi, started a brainstorming session on Monday on the possible reasons for the party's defeat in the recent Assembly polls at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
Chairing the meeting, Congress president Gandhi expressed concern over a possible third wave of COVID-19 and accused the Narendra Modi government of having completely abdicated its duty and leaving the responsibility of vaccinating people against the viral disease to the states.
"CWC meeting begins. Smt Sonia Gandhi expresses concern about a possible third Covid wave and says that the Modi Government has abdicated its responsibility and left vaccination to States," Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala wrote on Twitter.
"She says it would have been financially more equitable for the Centre to provide a free vaccine to all," he said.
The CWC meet was convened to assess the party's losses in the recently-concluded Assembly polls in four states and a Union Territory, amid demands from its leaders for a serious introspection over its poor performance at the hustings.
The polls were held in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
The Congress has lost most of the elections since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and though it has managed to win in Tamil Nadu, it was with the support of its bigger ally and regional player Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).