NEW DELHI, Feb. 12 -- A day after the party's rout in Delhi elections, the knives are out in the Congress with leaders blaming each other and raising questions on whether the party has outsourced the task of defeating the BJP to others.
AICC Delhi in-charge PC Chacko sought to put the blame of the party's decline on late Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, saying the party started losing ground in 2013.
Dikshit was chief minister of Delhi at the time.
"The party's downfall started since 2013. The party lost in all subsequent elections thereafter and the new outfit AAP took away all the Congress votebank," he said without naming Dikshit.
With party leader Milind Deora slamming him for his remarks, Chacko said he did not name Sheila Dikshit an...