Ajit Jogi blames infighting in Congress for poor show in Chhattisgarh

Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi has said that Congress has lost its ground in the state due to the infighting among the state congress leaders and the mistakes they have made. He also said that the sympathy factor following the Naxal massacre of the Congress leadership has completely dissolute due to the blame game within the party.

“We lost our front rank leaders including our former PCC chief Vidyacharan Shukla and many others. But though it was a great tragedy, I know in Indian environment, such an incident should have generated such a great sympathy wave that there would have been no need for Congress to do anything else,” Jogi said.

“We would have won sitting in our homes without doing any campaigning, if only this issue was let to develop the way it was naturally happening. But I feel sorry to say that more because of our own mistakes, within the party there were people who started blaming one another, mainly me and my followers. And the whole sympathy wave got deflected and it has now almost vanished. So something that the Congress could have encashed upon, we did not,” he added.

Ajit Yogi also blamed Chhattisgarh chief minister and BJP leader Raman Singh for encouraging Naxal extremism in the state.

“When I stepped down as chief minister in 2003, the Naxalite trouble was confined to our borders. Now, Naxalites control two-thirds of the state,” Jogi said.

“We will fight this danger through socioeconomic means, politically and through force,” he added.

He avoided direct questions on his son Amit Jogi’s misrepresentation of facts about himself.

“I and my wife have always been in positions of power…both my wife and son are contesting polls in their own capacity as politicians,”

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