Ahmedabad: The Congress has begun emergency zone-wise meetings in Gujarat to analyse the drubbing in the recently declared Assembly election results. An important meeting of the north Gujarat zone, including Ahmedabad, was held at Paldi Pradesh Congress Bhavan on Monday in which the winning and losing candidates of Congress besides the state president participated.
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The candidates, sources said, expressed their grievances at the meeting regarding the defeat. Congress won 17 seats while the BJP won 156 with AAP winning five seats on its Gujarat debut. At Tuesday's meeting, a few Congress leaders accused the BJP of using money power to win over the voters.
The leaders also expressed concern over the “sudden increase in polling at the last minute” which they said also affected the outcome. A zone meeting has been planned on December 13 to be followed by a special meeting of the South Zone on December 14 and Saurashtra Zone on 15.
