Rahul not to be blamed for election loss: AK Anthony

New Delhi: Rejecting criticism about Rahul Gandhi’s leadership, Congress leader A.K. Antony on Friday 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.

Mr Antony, who headed a committee that probed the reasons for the party’s poll debacle and submitted its report to Sonia Gandhi on Thursday, 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. Those who are spreading this kind of rumours want to weaken the party, such things are being spread by mischievous people, who want to weaken the party,” he said. The former defence minister said the “reasons for the Congress defeat were something else”.