Antony shields Rahul, blames media

Rejecting criticism about Rahul Gandhi's leadership, Congress leader A K Antony on Friday (August 15) said he was not responsible for the party's Lok Sabha poll debacle and exuded optimism that it will revive under Sonia Gandhi and Rahul.

Antony, who headed a committee that probed the reasons for the party's poll debacle and submitted its report to Sonia Gandhi yesterday, dismissed reports that there was a question
mark on the leadership of Rahul after the elections and that the committee has suggested something like that. "This is all speculation. Nothing. Absolutely wrong.Those who are spreading this kind of rumours want to weaken the party...such things are being spread by mischievous people, who want to to weaken the party," he told reporters on the sidelines of the flag hoisting ceremony at AICC headquarters.

Antony said the "reasons for the Congress defeat were something else". However, he did not elaborate as to what conclusions the panel has arrived at for the worst-ever defeat of Congress in the 2014 general elections.


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