New Delhi: It emerged on Tuesday that India’s opposition Congress party fired the local chiefs of five states after humiliating losses in recent elections. A Congress spokesperson said that its president Sonia Gandhi had asked state party heads of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa, and Manipur to resign “to facilitate reorganization” of their local units. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thrashed Congress in the last two general elections in 2014 and 2019.
