State Congress to rework strategies to capture power in 2021

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 27 : The state Congress party which faced a drubbing in the recent local body elections is reworking its strategies to capture power in the ensuing assembly elections of 2021.
The Congress, and the United Democratic Front (UDF) which it heads faced a major erosion in vote share in the local body polls. Of the six corporations in the state, the UDF could get only Kannur corporation. The Left seized power in Ernakulam while it retained Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Thrissur and Kozhikode.
In a further embarrassment, the Congress party and its front could garner only 10 seats in Thiruvananthapuram corporation out of 100 seats. In several panchayats and municipalities across the state it trailed even the BJP.
The party leadership has chalked out immediate plans to rework its strategies and the AICC general secretary in charge of the state Tariq Anwar is in the state for three days from Saturday to discuss and fine tune its strategies.
UDF convenor and former state Congress president M.M. Hassan told IANS that the party has studied in detail the reasons behind the drubbing and has planned a systematic approach to capture power in the 2021 assembly elections. “The Congress and UDF are down but not out. It should be noted that we had won 19 out of 20 seats in the 2019 general elections and that was a political election and the elections to the local body polls are mostly fought on personal lines. However a defeat is a defeat and we admit defeat but we have reworked ourselves and will package in a different line to get victory”. Hassan told IANS.
The state Congress it is learnt will be replacing seven of the 14 District Congress Committee presidents, whose performance was below-average thus leading to the party losing its grip in several traditional areas.