New Delhi: Former Congress MP Chandrashekhar Dubey on Thursday slammed Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) President Dr Ajoy Kumar for not contesting Lok Sabha elections in May this year.
"Ajoy did not contest elections himself as he knew he would lose. He has ruined the Congress party in Jharkhand," the senior leader said.
Accusing the JPCC President of sidelining senior leaders in the general elections, Dubey said, "Ajoy Kumar sold tickets to weak candidates only, the result of which is for all to see --- Congress party was defeated badly."
Dubey also launched a scathing attack on the party's state unit-incharge RPN Singh, saying the latter has always helped Kumar in decimating the Congress party in the state.
A former IPS officer of the 1986 batch, Kumar, was elected as the member of 15th Lok Sabha in July 2011 in a mid-term election on a ticket from JVM. He later joined Congress in August 2014 and was appointed the President of JPCC in November 2017.
Congress had faced a drubbing in the recently held Lok Sabha elections, especially with it managing to win only one of the 14 constituencies in Jharkhand. Kumar had sent his resignation post the debacle in the general elections but the final decision on it is yet to be taken by the central leadership.
The assembly elections in Jharkhand are due in November-December this year to elect 81 members of the Legislative Assembly.
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