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Blame game continues in Praja Rajyam

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The blame game for the Praja Rajyam’s poll debacle continued on the second day with several seniors blaming general secretary Allu Aravind and T. Devender Goud at the first-ever meeting of the party’s Political Affairs Committee that extended on to Friday.

While it was the turn of Mr. Aravind to be blamed on Thursday, Mr. Goud was reportedly cornered on Friday, for the poor performance in Telangana region where the party could win only two seats.

Collective responsibility

At the end of the second day’s meeting that lasted nearly about seven hours, it was learnt that the blame game came to an end, with the PAC resolving to take collective responsibility for the poor show. For the first time, the PAC is understood to have come to the conclusion that a single person or persons or situation did not lead to the electoral debacle.

The reasons identified for the party’s abysmal performance included the absolute lack of infrastructure at the lower level, delay in announcing candidates and the lack of time available for the campaign and taking the message of change and social justice to the people. On Saturday, the PAC will meet again to discuss plans to take the party forward and chalk out future programmes, according to PAC member and official spokesperson KSR Murthy.

By a resolution, the meeting decided to revamp the entire party infrastructure. All the ad-hoc committees are to be disbanded soon and fresh committees formed. Interestingly, the preoccupation of the party towards pressing affairs like internal strengthening can be gauged from the fact that three days after Mr. Chiranjeevi was unanimously elected Praja Rajyam Legislature Party leader, the names of Deputy Leaders, Whip and Secretary were yet to be finalised.

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