Anil Shastri blames ‘excessive negative campaign’ for Congress’s defeat, says ‘chowkidar chor hai’ backfired on party  

Anil Shastri.

Senior Congress leader and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s son Anil Shastri, on Thursday, blamed his own party for the “excessive negative campaign” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He added that it might be the reason for the grand old party’s humiliating defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

While interacting with News18, Shastri said, “The Congress failed to address public issues and the ‘chowkidar chor hai’ slogan was not accepted by people of the country. Excessive negative campaign against the Prime Minister has not gone down well with the public.”

Interetingly, Shastri refrained from commenting on the poor performance of Rahul Gandhi as the opposition leader and said, “I have not said anything against the party leadership and I maintain that.”

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