Bruised in Guj, now Cong turns attention to K’taka

A war strategy to contest the elections would be put in place by the cong in the next 15 days in Karnataka.

Gearing up to contest the assembly polls, the Congress said on Thursday it would put in place a ‘war strategy’ in the next fortnight to stage a comeback to power in Karnataka.

“A war strategy to contest the elections would be put in place in the next 15 days”, Congress Spokesman, M Verrappa Moily told reporters in Bangalore on Thursday.

“Our strategy would be to bring the Congress to power and defeat communal forces”, Moily, also former Chief Minister, said.

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“We can do it through proper management and proper selection of candidates”, he said, exuding confidence that the Congress would contest 133 constituencies out of 224 in the state.

Listing out the `failures’ under the JDS-BJP reign, he said the state had experienced power shortage, huge transmission and distribution losses. He also alleged irregularities in irrigation projects, SEZs and accused the previous coalition of “bungling of social security schemes” and causing losses to government exchequer and lack of infrastructure development in the state.

About selection of candidates, he said “performance” and “accountability” would be the key words.

“Anyone recommending a person would have the onus of taking on responsibility for the candidate’s performance, his achievement or failure”, he said adding that the focus of the party would be on “fixing responsibility”.

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The Congress party was currently probing the reasons behind the party’s debacle in Gujarat and the persons that were accountable for this, he said.