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    Maharashtra Congress in panic mode for Assembly polls

    Synopsis

    ​​The party brass met last Thursday to review its dismal poll performance in Lok Sabha 2019 and many seem to have pressed the panic button regarding the future.

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    MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Congress is floundering, spooked by the results in the state where it won just one out of 26 seats it contested in an alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

    The party brass met last Thursday to review its dismal poll performance in Lok Sabha 2019 and many seem to have pressed the panic button regarding the future.

    Maharashtra is set to go to polls after three months and leaders fear the party may not even get the 42 seats that it got last time. “We could follow Andhra Pradesh where the Congress has no presence,”said a senior Congress leader from Mumbai


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