We failed to connect…have to double efforts: Priyanka

se jurav nirantar honi chahiye (there has to be constant connection with people),” Priyanka told party leaders, promising to do a “complete evaluation” of the party’s defeat.

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“We will evaluate everyone’s contribution – who worked and who did not. Aapne khud ka bhi mulyankan karwaongi (will also get my contribution evaluated),”  the Congress leader, who was the face of the party in the poll, added. With many leaders quitting the party, Priyanka said, “While those who were upset have left, those who remain in the party are fighters… Aap hile nahi, aap chorr kar nahi gaye. Kitni bhi mushkil paristhitiyan thi, aap party ki vichar-dhara ke saath khade rahe” (You did not leave and despite difficult situations, you all stood with the party’s ideology).”

The BJP has been able to take its ideology to each and every household of the country, but the Congress has not been able to do the same despite being the party of Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Sardar Patel and Dr Ambedkar who fought for the country’s independence, she said.

Priyanka praised former state unit chief Ajay Lallu and the party’s two MLAs, “who won despite all odds”. “You are the strongest party workers in the country… We cannot be afraid, we will have to correct our mistakes and double our hard work,” she added.

Priyanka will be camping in Lucknow on Thursday and will meet former MPs, MLAs, front organisation leaders, and district presidents.