"Warning bell for us", says Karnataka Congress chief on LS poll outcome, "fact-finding mission" on
Bengaluru: Terming the Lok Sabha election outcome in Karnataka as a «warning bell» to the Congress, its state unit chief D K Shivakumar on Monday indicated that the ruling outfit in the State is currently on a fact-finding mission to find out the reasons for the below par performance. Also the Deputy Chief Minister, he stressed on the need to look at what went wrong and rectify them, as he called upon party men not to speak before the media regarding the party's performance and blaming someone for it.
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The NDA got 19 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, with BJP winning 17 and JD(S) two. The ruling Congress, which banked heavily on the guarantee schemes that its Government had launched and expected them to yield rich electoral dividends, has won nine seats.
«When General Secretary (AICC) and Rahul Gandhi came to Bengaluru, they told us. We are calling meetings and discussing. Today we have called a meeting to discuss Bengaluru city. For other places too we will fix dates. We need to examine things and review where we have gone wrong, what has happened,» Shivakumar told reporters here.
He added: «I have asked party men not to speak to the media. Let us do the fact finding on what has happened where, and find solutions.»
«People have given us a warning bell. We need to be careful in the future.
