Congress failed to link unemployment, agrarian crisis with nationalism in 2019 elections: Gaurav Gogoi

New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): The Congress party failed to link issues of unemployment, growth and agrarian distress to national security in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, says Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, who claims that a "fair amount of introspection" on the defeat has been done in the party.The two-time MP from Kaliabor in Assam and the party in-charge of West Bengal told ANI in an interview that in the Lok Sabha election Bengal became "very polarised and communal" and Trinamool Congress (TMC) should introspect on the reasons for Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) rise in the state.Gogoi (37), who is a permanent invitee to Congress Working Committee (CWC) - the party's highest decision-making body - said unemployment and agrarian distress were realities of the country and the Congress was raising them continuously during the campaign."Despite these being realities of the country, when it comes to creating a much more stronger campaign around these issues, taking the message down to ...