Rahul is not a liability, nor out of sync, says Kamal Nath

“We must build our state organisations and make them more autonomous. We must make more people join the party and bring new voters what Congress stands for and about its ideologies. It has to be done at the block level not at the state level,” he said.

The senior leader also admitted that corruption and inflation were big issues in the elections that also led to the defeat of the Congress.

Nath stressed that there was a need to “introspect and discuss with each other in every state. We should put our heads together to see whether we failed to deliver it or in the message itself.”

On the charges of practising appeasement politics, Nath said, “We don't want to practice appeasement politics but if it seems to be appeasement politics. Then we really need to be correcting ourselves.”