The Hindu : `Congress disappointed'

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Wednesday, Oct 01, 2003

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`Congress disappointed'

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE SEPT. 30. The All India Congress Committee president, Sonia Gandhi, today said that the Congress was disappointed at the loss of the Lok Sabha byelections in Ernakulam, Kerala, and Solapur, Maharashtra.

The Congress was "deeply disappointed" at the outcome of the poll results. "I will ask my senior party colleagues to look into the reason for our defeat," Ms. Gandhi told presspersons during her visit to a farmer's house at Anedoddi in Kanakapura taluk in Bangalore rural district. . Following a spate of suicide by farmers in Karnataka, Ms. Gandhi visited the houses of farmers in Kanakapura and Channapatna taluks. The Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and the AICC general secretary in-charge of the State, Vayalar Ravi, accompanied Ms. Gandhi.

Later speaking to mediapersons, the Congress leader, Ambika Soni, said that the BJP-led NDA Government was twisting the Babri Masjid demolition cases to suit its political ends.

She said her party wanted the CBI to review all cases relating to the Babri Masjid demolition. She wanted to know why the Special CBI court in Rae Bareli discharged the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, but found grounds to proceed against seven others in the case. The Congress would react to it after studying all related issues. The BJP had also been issuing contradictory and confusing statements on the construction of a temple at Ayodhya, she added.

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